Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , adds Damon , he does n't need an agent to find him scripts , because he 's planning to write his own . |
| 2 | ( " Is groundsel nice , mother ? " ) and Hazel , touched to think that he must be dreaming of old days , rolled over on his side to give him room to settle again . |
| 3 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 4 | Of course , she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago . |
| 5 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 6 | ‘ The powers that be in MI5 , by the way , believed enough in Mills being a KGB agent to offer him immunity from prosecution in exchange for confession and cooperation . |
| 7 | Quite innocently , Meik made his temper worse by returning to Holmsly Manor to bid him farewell . |
| 8 | I put my hand round the child 's neck to stop him shouting . |
| 9 | ‘ Besides , ’ Theda added , her eyes flashing , ‘ after the way he spoke to me , I am not of a mind to hand him gifts . ’ |
| 10 | Eventually , the passenger felt confident enough of his new friend in the driving seat to tell him jokes about the regime , culminating in obscene calumnies of Elena Ceauşescu . |
| 11 | She had heard from Mrs Crick that Mr Clare had spoken of marrying a country girl to help him farm , milk cows and reap corn . |
| 12 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 13 | It 's not your place to give him orders . ’ |
| 14 | Walter ‘ Terry ’ Smith , 36 , of Cowgate , Edinburgh , had been freed from jail to give him time to get fresh evidence to prove his innocence . |
| 15 | President Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo , 84 , declared on Feb. 27 that the Social Christian Reformist Party ( PRSC ) , which he had formed in 1964 , should elect a new leader to allow him time for other commitments . |
| 16 | ‘ You then looked round in shock to see him fall . |
| 17 | He may take samples and can require any person to give him information relevant to his examination or investigation , to answer questions and to sign a declaration of the truth of the answers . |
| 18 | He chewed his way through a large and over-greasy midday meal , drank more beer than he ought to have done , took some laudanum with his brandy and water to give him sleep and felt his brain ripped open by a nightmare which wolfed down his mind in the open bleeding mouths of women . |
| 19 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 20 | STRIKE IT RICH IAN RUSH slots home his fourth goal against Limassol last night to make him Anfield 's European goal king . |
| 21 | Lucky old Shelley — the first woman to meet him face to face . ’ |
| 22 | The most likely explanation was her offer to buy him dinner in return for the loan of the flat . |
| 23 | And whereas the said John Weston Foakes has requested the said Julia Beer to give him time in which to pay such judgment , which she has agreed to do on the following conditions . |
| 24 | Trust the colonel to give him chapter and verse . |
| 25 | John likes to keep the horses separate so that they do n't kick each other , but Hopscotch often jumps into Milton 's paddock to keep him company ; and sometimes if the weather is bad , one of the children 's ponies is turned out with him , otherwise Milton , who is a bit of a softy , will hang around by the gate in the hope that someone will take pity on him and take him back to his warm stable . |
| 26 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 27 | It had been a mistake on her part to appoint him chairman of the Party in the 1980s , the twin conditions of the appointment being , as she remembered , the removal of his ‘ dreadful ’ beard and the dropping of the ‘ Selwyn ’ . |
| 28 | She took her coffee from him and shifted across the bed to give him room to lie down . |
| 29 | More likely in case he should go along the road to ease him self on Alice Mulcahy . |
| 30 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |