Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happily , my finally getting to meet him coincides with the release of one of Morrissey 's great records ( they seem to alternate quite evenly with duff ones ) , so there 's no awkward rub between the fan 's loyalty and the critic 's ‘ responsibility ’ to the ‘ truth ’ . |
| 2 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 3 | It comes as a surprise to find him boasting of his prowess as a rioter . |
| 4 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 5 | In this connection it is interesting to go back to William Smith , the father of stratigraphy , and to find him commenting in his memoir to the first geological map in 1815 : " The edges of the strata … are called their outcrops ; and the under edge of every stratum , being the top of the next , and that being generally the best defined , is represented by the fullest part of each colour " . |
| 6 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 7 | Across the table her younger son , Joseph , saw her cheeks burn , and she looked up to find him gazing at her in mystification . |
| 8 | His introduction to the greater world during his London visit was important in shaping his liberal sympathies , and when he returned to Stowey in March 1791 , his relatives were shocked to find him overflowing with French Revolutionary politics as well as other democratic heresies . |
| 9 | Quickly changing , bundling up the red dress , she emerged to find him sitting on her bed . |
| 10 | The class had taken a whole afternoon to find him buried beneath his precious collection and he had been more concerned about his stones than himself . |
| 11 | She went upstairs and slung her bikini bottoms in a bag , along with her suntan oil and a towel , and ran downstairs , to find him waiting for her by the front door . |
| 12 | Yet she was not surprised to find him waiting for her outside the church , apparently absorbed in the design of an iron pineapple on the railings . |
| 13 | She spun round , startled , at the sound of Jake 's voice , to find him standing at her elbow , blue eyes dark with condemnation as they looked down into her face . |
| 14 | Helen had taken over the ‘ Returned Books ’ counter temporarily from one of the juniors and looked up to find him standing in front of her , smiling . |
| 15 | She remembered the distinct thud of disappointment verging on alarm she had experienced when she had stepped out of the lift to find him surrounded by luggage , obviously leaving . |
| 16 | But to avoid this return to voluntarism he must have in mind some further conception of strategy , and it is not surprising to find him talking about it in what might be called its objective sense : the strategy of a class — the course of action which will best enable it to gain power over other classes — is estimated in the light of its objective interests and its position in a formation , and is detached from the beliefs and aspirations of its members . |
| 17 | SUNDERLAND boss Malcolm Crosby has warned West Ham it will take an ‘ incredible offer ’ to tempt him to part with striker John Byrne . |
| 18 | Soon afterwards he left the Wang ( though Zervos tried to tempt him to stay by offering him an extra , wait for it , thirty-five cents an hour ! ) and started working days at the ice-cream parlour on Main Street which belonged , coincidentally , to Celia 's uncle ( or maybe not so coincidentally since , in a town like Adam 's Creek , population 2,200 , most people ended up being related sooner or later ) . |
| 19 | He does n't know Mitch well enough to trust him to look after you . ’ |
| 20 | But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door . |
| 21 | ‘ I seem to remember him pushing past me . |
| 22 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 23 | If , for instance , the king of France was at war with the king of Aragon or Castile and called upon the king of England , as duke of Aquitaine , to serve him according to his oath , how could former treaties of alliance between England and Aragon or Castile be broken ? |
| 24 | His response to a Christian who might approach him with the request to convert to Hinduism would be to urge him to try to be a good Christian since the Gītā could offer him no more than the Bible . |
| 25 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 26 | But it is difficult to imagine him going to Stamford Bridge or instructing London Welsh in the value of second-phase possession . |
| 27 | It is hard to imagine him coming at a better time as we plan to make our first Diocesan Assembly the centrepiece of his visit , on Saturday 10th June . |
| 28 | So perhaps to imagine the postman 's work in isolation is to imagine him walking down a street posting letters , or at least sealed envelopes , but imagining the houses as mere facades , with no rooms or people behind . |
| 29 | Rather than waiting for inspiration he is shown with a pen in his hand , an unfinished manuscript on the table , and at his side a harpsichord on which we are to imagine him playing through the work in progress . |
| 30 | Unfortunately though , he became too domesticated and did n't have a fear of humans so he was put on a programme to help him adjust to the wild . |