Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer . |
| 2 | Mr Rifkind says that many people in industry are telling him they would ‘ switch to rail tomorrow ’ if they knew British Rail was reliable . |
| 3 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 4 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 5 | And as he prepared for today 's Charity Shield clash , the £2.9million Saunders , 28 , admitted that the question mark over his future is unsettling him . |
| 6 | His neck 's hurting him , every time he moves , his neck 's hurting . |
| 7 | ‘ The best way to rout the enemy is to confront him , but you ca n't do that until you know his name . ’ |
| 8 | Our light is to tell him that food is ready for him . |
| 9 | Police say they do n't yet know when Mr Dobbs body will be released but the Gloucestershire coronor 's expecting him to be returned for an inquest |
| 10 | Again her driving force was animating him , pushing back an insidious sensation of inertia . |
| 11 | Under his breath , the Vice President was telling him to get stuffed . |
| 12 | Isabel saw the powerful muscles of his shoulders flex beneath his tunic as he controlled whatever emotion was driving him . |
| 13 | Murder was to make him something he had always suspected he might be , but had never dreamed of becoming — interesting . |
| 14 | His swing was taut and abbreviated as , despite what his golfing mind was telling him ( swing slow , swing smoothly through the ball ) , the darker side of his mind made him try to steer the ball . |
| 15 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |
| 16 | No , Im used to defending Fairclough , my girlfriend was slagging him off last season . |
| 17 | Again the attempt was to persuade him that courts are very reasonable . |
| 18 | Suppose her real intention was to kill him ? ’ |
| 19 | I 'm not actually sure that either er was mentioned erm , what they would have been told er was that there was an escaped prisoner there er who was armed and our intention was to arrest him . |
| 20 | Before he was even inside Amelia 's hallway , some harridan was leaping him , kissing his face with dry lips , pulling at his lapels . |
| 21 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 22 | The result of this slight deformity was to leave him with a rather nasal drawl . |
| 23 | Creggan could see that he was afraid and that his fear was making him terribly uncertain . |
| 24 | The alternative was leaving him . ’ |
| 25 | If Blake could not be exchanged the only alternative was to get him out of prison . |
| 26 | Wycliffe glanced back at the house and again saw the seated figure in the upstairs room , but now he had the impression that the figure was facing him , looking out of the side window . |
| 27 | The rider had managed to keep a hold on one rein and the horse was masking him — hopping and kicking out in an effort to break free . |
| 28 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 29 | The British Rail chairman , Sir Bob Reid , said last night : ‘ We have contacted Mr Knapp for urgent discussions and BR management are meeting him tomorrow with a view to finding a way through this so that we can avoid disruption to passengers . |
| 30 | Alec sighed heavily , as if this scene were depressing him . |