Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , just look round any bar and you 'll see that everybody there , myself included ( you too if it 's your kind of bar ) , has in their time been both The Boy and The Older Man , both Banker and Domestic , Ingenue and Other Woman , booted Prince and stirrup-holding Groom — but I do n't mean either that you should have complete license to make him look just how you wish ; I do n't want to think of anyone hearing this story and grinning and thinking of Boy as some permanently , conveniently smiling blue-eyed blonde , because he was not that in any way and that is not what he meant to us . |
| 2 | In this instant , a stronger bit might help with the strong horse to stop him running through the rider 's hand . |
| 3 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 4 | The idea that a minister should have a political associate to assist him is not new . |
| 5 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 6 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 7 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 8 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |
| 9 | However , if the patient has learned to make steps safely , but still tends to overuse his normal side , the physiotherapist may supply him with a high stick to help him to balance better . |
| 10 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 11 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 12 | Overall , I believe Stalin planned Kirov 's murder so that he could continue the purges , with a justifiable excuse to back him up . |
| 13 | At a case status hearing on 17 August , the court appointed a public defender to represent him and then adjourned the proceedings until a further status hearing on 3 January 1991 , at which time a trial date would be set . |
| 14 | DAVID BISHOP , the 31-year-old Wales rugby league scrum-half who is still in dispute with Hull Kingston Rovers , yesterday pleaded for a top club to buy him and help rescue his international career . |
| 15 | Yet Ellcock , an intelligent man with strong views on the game , graciously allowed the Daily Mail to photograph him ‘ celebrating ’ at home watching Sky TV as Wayne Larkins hit the winning run in the Jamaica Test when he probably felt like crying again because he was not at Sabina Park to share the moment . |
| 16 | The exhibition not only demonstrated many old ideas , but also at least one new one — Mr Preshous ' original idea of hiring a light aeroplane to enable him to take aerial photographs of the route . |
| 17 | Yet oddly enough when Massine staged his Donald of the Burthens with the help of a Scottish expert to guide him through the traditional steps and figures it was not a success , possibly because too much reliance was placed . |
| 18 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 19 | On this occasion , he grew bored with the idea of Algeria , and to the consternation of parliament commandeered a French warship to take him to Tunisia . |
| 20 | He called persistently for his old schoolmaster to beat him . |
| 21 | But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly . |
| 22 | Yes , you all laugh — who , all right , he makes — some of the things he says are valid , but because he 's watered his message down , if you , well ‘ watered down ’ is the wrong , popularized his message to make a political point , at the same time he 's alienated other people who he needs to rely on in this scientific community to help him go , go forward . |
| 23 | The very powers of rationality which enabled modern man to free himself from nature and control it had also become an instrumental device to dominate him . |
| 24 | The Hussar Captain 's anger had been prompted by the French refusal to fight him . |
| 25 | Gloucester MP Douglas French said when Gooding escaped that Coney Hill was the wrong place to keep him . |
| 26 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 27 | But he will have cause to resent his treatment by campaign organisers given Mr Kinnock 's unequivocal pledge to appoint him Foreign Secretary in a Labour government . |
| 28 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 29 | She fought against the sudden unexplainable impulse to tell him everything , to lighten the heavy burden of grieving alone . |
| 30 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |