Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The parish officers promised to find him work . |
| 2 | Mr Wakil told a news conference that the President was being held in Kabul with ‘ those who tried to help him escape ’ . |
| 3 | Felix remembered the gang of them at the beginning of the World War , with Stephen stomping around reviling the call-up , deciding on conscientious objection for himself , shaking off the hand of any acquaintance who tried to help him speed over a dangerous crossing , and talking about the anti-militarist statement he would make to the court . |
| 4 | In return for this information the chief priests promised to give him money . |
| 5 | Thomas Cromwell was offered £100 for his help in obtaining the post of justice in North Wales ; J. Lucas proposed to give him £10 for wine — literally a pourboire if appointed King 's Solicitor . |
| 6 | The men at the bar moved to give him room . |
| 7 | He was standing there with Mrs Kasmin as she tried to give him tea . |
| 8 | A month before the World War broke out , and only a few months after he became a parish priest , the Archbishop of Canterbury tried to make him head of St Augustine 's College at Canterbury , which had the work of training men to be missionaries . |
| 9 | He was taken away from his home on the night of 29 March by a man who reportedly came to give him information about his two ‘ disappeared ’ sons . |
| 10 | In any case , in the old days , no Iranian ever came to give him advice . |
| 11 | He sued to love the sun and it seemed to give him life but now as they drag his limp body into the sun they realise that nothing will wake him , not even the sun . |
| 12 | The sight of Celia and Brassard seemed to give him courage . |
| 13 | Just having David there seemed to give him confidence and Nick showed signs of playing really well . |
| 14 | Lucie laid his hand against Gabriel 's cheek ; it seemed to cost him effort to lift his arm , because a sweat broke out on his top lip . |
| 15 | A bitter wind form the Elburz Mountains sweeps around two 707s parked in front of the low , white , thickly carpeted Imperial Pavilion where , in happier days , the Shah of Iran welcomed or bade farewell to the monarchs and statesmen who came to pay him court , nurture his ambitions and ask for alliances , money or other tokens of his kingship . |
| 16 | The words seemed to make him smile , but there was no cruelty in it . |
| 17 | Then there 's Bernard , who does n't know how well he 's supposed to be doing because you failed to give him standards of performance that he could measure his efforts by . |
| 18 | It was afterwards , when the adrenalin had stopped flowing , that it began to cause him pain . |
| 19 | Without answering , she got out the frying pan and began to do him bacon and eggs . |
| 20 | For the first time in our marriage I began to tell him lies . |
| 21 | She dragged over a stepladder , climbed it , and began to hand him books . |
| 22 | ‘ He was n't moving so I started to give him mouth to mouth . ’ |
| 23 | Readers started to send him examples of leys in their own districts and , as a result of their enthusiasm , the Straight Track Club was formed in 1926 . |
| 24 | She started to teach him rhymes and poems and then she would write them down on scraps of paper so that he could follow the letters through when he was on his own . |
| 25 | I know Ellen Garwood loved to call him Mr Green , and when she would write me letters thinking that Mr Green was her real son , I got the impression that she was talking to me on the telephone underneath her bed , about the fun she was having . |
| 26 | The authorities arrested him so he got that kind of and erm and then they started to ask him questions . |
| 27 | Kildare , who as they smiled on their first born son in 1725 decided to christen him Arthur , ( 2 ) ( 1725–1803 ) after his godfather and benefactor Archbishop Arthur Price of Cashel . |
| 28 | They went to see him Monday night , with all that fog , they come out and bloody car had gone |
| 29 | She went over and helped him up and offered to buy him breakfast which , after a lot of persuasion , he accepted . |
| 30 | Malcolm , who worked as the ‘ Hyster Driver ’ in the warehouse , is shown shaking hands with Alec Shaw ( right ) , Warehouse Manager , together with many friends who gathered to wish him farewell . |