Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very reason she had always forbidden him to bring a refrigerator into the house was this fear that , because she was old and no longer so quick of eye and nimble of hand and foot , it might defeat her . |
| 2 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 3 | Elizabeth had let him wear a gold chain of hers round his neck . |
| 4 | How easily she had let him manipulate the transition . |
| 5 | I should have let him shoot the boy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 7 | Out of the kindness of his heart he had let him have a job in his shoe repair shop . |
| 8 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 9 | I should n't have let him have the key . |
| 10 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 11 | It was n't as though she 'd expected him to wear a City suit . |
| 12 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 13 | She had quite expected him to stop the car on the way home and make a grab at her and she was all prepared to cope with it , had her little speech ready about what a wonderful evening she 'd had but at the moment she was concentrating on her career and did n't really want to waste time on that kind of thing . |
| 14 | She had expected him to get a water-taxi , but he turned right and walked along the fondamenta , matching his stride to her slower pace . |
| 15 | No one had expected him to survive a massive cerebral haemorrhage |
| 16 | ‘ You would n't have expected him to become a writer ? ’ |
| 17 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |
| 18 | There are many people in Hungary nursing stab wounds in the back who can testify to Mr Pozsgay 's first-class conspiratorial skills , but few have caught him wielding the knife . |
| 19 | A MALAYSIAN was jailed for five years in the capital , Kuala Lumpur , yesterday for biting off the finger of a policeman who had prevented him stealing a motorcycle . |
| 20 | Even if he had been aware of the presence , the darkness would have prevented him seeing the man who watched his flat . |
| 21 | In this instance the foul play was the deliberate knock-down , and Derek had to be sure that Rory would have caught the ball and that no Australian would have legally prevented him scoring a try . |
| 22 | But I had n't noticed him clocking the fact until the day he decided to bugger off to Box 29 with Veronica . |
| 23 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , it was his high principles that had obliged him to reject the daughter he loved ; a sad deed that had left its mark on him . |
| 25 | Patrick heard the roar and the storm of applause and guessed that his curiosity had made him miss the shot not only of the tournament but probably of the golfing year . |
| 26 | Nothing would have made him do a Damon and slink back . |
| 27 | He was in a filthy mood , first because I 'd suggested he sleep on my floor instead of at Sorrel 's so we could get an early start , then because I 'd made him wear a suit and tie to go with our Yuppie cover ( and because I 'd insisted on the shirt as well ) . |
| 28 | The times had made him mistrust the militant kinds of heroism , though he unjustly saw himself as deficient in fortitude of another sort . |
| 29 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |
| 30 | And Rob Thomas 's description of the man made him seem a fugitive , not a killer . |