Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 2 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 3 | Whichever the case , things are so awry that God himself is afraid and immediately jumps to the conclusion that they mean to seize the power that properly belongs to him . |
| 4 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was the evasive eyes ; perhaps it was the permanent sly grin on the long narrow face which gave the impression that Skerritt was always secretly laughing at him . |
| 6 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 7 | Everyone knew that the rules were being stretched , but it took a skilled operator to persuade an official to ignore evidence that was blatantly paraded before him . |
| 8 | Right place for him ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ That sounds as though you do n't altogether approve of him , ’ said Julia . |
| 10 | Then , in the late afternoon , to the school : zygoma , xanthelasma , volvulus , all drained from him , at least , at last , all that ugly shit . |
| 11 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 12 | ‘ Better stay with him , six two . |
| 13 | I 'm not very good at listening to God , but between one and three am God spoke to me so powerfully and painfully that I have never felt so broken before him ( and still do ) . |
| 14 | He suffered for you , so suffer for him . |
| 15 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 16 | Mr Fuller said : ‘ Our club only heard from him when we had discos in the club house and he phoned us to keep the noise down . ’ |
| 17 | A face suddenly lunged at him , its teeth bared . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't think what suddenly got into him . |
| 19 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 20 | It is a terrible thing to be clung to by a sick child if you are not used to it ; Fleury was very shaken by the power of the protective instinct which was suddenly aroused in him , although to no avail , for there was nothing he could do . |
| 21 | The Copts would merely regroup without him . |
| 22 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 23 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 24 | She loved , admired and trusted him and was , emotionally and intellectually , entirely dominated by him . |
| 25 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 26 | He did n't approve of smoking or drinking and my Dad was so dominated by him that he would hide his pipe behind a cushion — once setting fire to the chair — for fear of incurring his wrath . |
| 27 | She might be able to convince herself that the momentary flash of madness she 'd experienced , in thinking that she was falling in love with Luke Calder , was merely the result of stress , but it did n't change the fact that she was greatly attracted to him , and that was where the true danger lay . |
| 28 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 29 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 30 | Momentarily bereft of speech as the sharp pain in her ankle began to subside , Gina could only glare at him . |