Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 2 | After 1962 , when Macmillan persuaded President Kennedy at the Nassau meeting to let him have Polaris , the British space effort lost the committed patronage of the Ministry of Defence . |
| 3 | Penry got to his feet very slowly , standing over her in a way which made Leonora long to back away , but she stood her ground , refusing to let him intimidate her . |
| 4 | Fighting an impulse to back away , Gina forced herself to hold her ground , refusing to let him see how his nearness made the hairs on the back of her neck rise in anticipation of conflict . |
| 5 | Refusing to let him see any trace of fear in her eyes , she squared up to him , pride stiffening her spine . |
| 6 | To her horror she felt the sting of tears in her eyes and looked away again , refusing to let him see her moment of weakness . |
| 7 | Even that slight contact sent a shudder through her body , but she fought it , refusing to let him see how he could move her . |
| 8 | ‘ Everybody needs a base , ’ she had returned lightly , refusing to let him dull the excitement she had felt ever since finding the farmhouse . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 10 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 11 | Wanting to make him feel I was hurt . |
| 12 | When she had said that before she had meant it , but now she realised she was lying ; she was wanting to make him feel better and she was also hanging on to her old life to feel safe . |
| 13 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 14 | It disturbed him to think of her father perhaps waking to hear him tiptoe down the passage like a shifty thief afraid of discovery . |
| 15 | What had she secretly been yearning to hear him say ? |
| 16 | But Arabella Buckley , with a murderer who was not ‘ one of us ’ almost under her thumb , was not going to let him go so easily . |
| 17 | There 's no point in both of us being awake all night , it 's not going to make him get better any quicker . ’ |
| 18 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |
| 19 | Having heard him speak , I can just about forgive him for not understanding the Committee debate . |
| 20 | Kendo then took the prey from Fitz , having let him tear out a large piece of the monkey 's intestines . |
| 21 | She could not remember having seen him blush before . |
| 22 | Long before Quex died , however , Edward Carrington had discovered better reasons than inter-service rivalry and backstabbing to make him doubt the quality of the organization he had been so proud to join . |
| 23 | ‘ If you 're caught trying to help him escape you 'll be charged with aiding and abetting a wanted criminal . |
| 24 | If Ben Leggatt had earned his living , not as an odd job man at Weston Longville rectory but as a private soldier in one of His Majesty 's foot regiments billetted in Bungay , he would have found the shopkeepers overwilling to let him take away purchases on a promise to pay later — had it not been for the ‘ Crying Down The Credits ’ . |
| 25 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 26 | Alexia was trying to make him feel better . |
| 27 | Dr Benjamin Spock points out , however , that if an angry mother refrains from spanking she may show her irritation in other ways , for instance , by nagging the child for half the day or trying to make him feel deeply guilty . |
| 28 | Is n't he trying to make him feel guilty Manhom and this woman ? |
| 29 | ‘ I look a bit of a hag , ’ I said , trying to make him laugh . |
| 30 | ‘ She 's right , ’ said Dad , somewhat magisterially , when I went to him later and told him what she 'd said , trying to make him see how demented it was . |