Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 2 | The jury took four hours yesterday after a nine-day trial to find him guilty of five charges of indecent assault . |
| 3 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 4 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 5 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 6 | Henry was so infuriated by the childlike look of loss on his face he had half a mind to give him some . |
| 7 | Mandeville had had to shoot his bolting horse to cut him free . |
| 8 | Towards the end of his life Gouzenko went blind but the news was kept so secret that in 173 MI5 sent an agent to show him some photographs in the hope that he could recognise Hollis . |
| 9 | Did the fact that he is accompanied by a doctor on the campaign trail help to lose him last week 's TV showdown with Clinton ? |
| 10 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 11 | A BOY of 12 who begged a judge to set him free of his mother was granted his wish last night . |
| 12 | He accepted the direction of a United States public-relations expert to help him present a favourable impression of the revolution , and was described by a Department of State official as ‘ a man on his best behaviour ’ throughout the visit ( Memo for the president from Christian A. Herter , 23 April 1959 , US Declassified , 1976 , 58F ) . |
| 13 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 14 | His first move was to try and persuade the council to agree to the execution of the imprisoned Rivers and Grey on the grounds that their alleged plan to murder him constituted treason . |
| 15 | His first move was to try and persuade the council to agree to the execution of the imprisoned Rivers and Grey on the grounds that their alleged plan to murder him constituted treason . |
| 16 | Benji is quite an old boy and needs plenty of work to get him supple . |
| 17 | But then of course Paula was so lovely she had only to look at a boy to have him crazy about her , Sally thought wretchedly . |
| 18 | He has agreed to pay us more than our usual commission — well , I explained , of course , that we would need ample compensation to lend him one of our girls for such unusual services , and I must say — ’ |
| 19 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 20 | He saw a good deal of Eden in the next months , and with a genuine desire to see him Prime Minister gave him a lot of advice . |
| 21 | ‘ And you have no right to promise him any money ! ’ |
| 22 | I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me , which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal . ’ |
| 23 | You may even feel a strong urge to dig the pet up because the need to hold him one more time can be quite overwhelming . |
| 24 | There was no need to get him involved in this . |
| 25 | It 's your job to make him interested . |
| 26 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 28 | ‘ And you , Shallot , were the last person to see him alive ? ’ |
| 29 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |
| 30 | He can require any person to afford him such facilities and assistance , within that person 's control or responsibilities , as are necessary to enable the inspector to exercise any of the powers conferred on him . |