Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle .
2 Instead his hands were eagerly outstretched , and she moved towards him knowing that life could hold no greater happiness than this .
3 It was typical of him to choose this pub .
4 That 's why I would n't bet against him nicking that point . ’
5 Behind him stood another soldier , a KGB trooper , and Duncan saw further guards hidden in the shadows .
6 I went back in with him to hoist this load , and the altar lamp was still bright .
7 With him went several members of the Beni-Gomez family , and it is from this that their hatred of Rodrigo dates .
8 Claudia pleaded with him to make some defence .
9 Do you have confidence in him to conduct this operation ?
10 We thought about him buying some property and letting it out .
11 Two factors about him concern this story .
12 By the end of 1969 his success had been just sufficient for him to collect some sponsorship for 1970 , when he raced in a Lotus 59 .
13 I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home .
14 Berry dismisses criticism of climbs of this kind , made recently by Reinhiold Messner among others : ‘ It 's all very well for him to say this kind of thing , but when he climbed Everest for the first time without oxygen and on other occasions , he was quite happy to make use of heavyweight-style expeditions .
15 Anthony , predictably enough Julia thought , decided that his patients needed him too much for him to take any kind of holiday over the Easter weekend , but he made no objection to David 's formal request to take Julia away to stay with his mother .
16 Even Ipuky could not arrange for him to see this body , and he no longer had the cachet of officialdom with which to browbeat the embalmer .
17 Besides , sometimes a person 's consent to a right or benefit is required for him to acquire that right or a benefit .
18 He looked at Bigwig , as though waiting for him to ask another question .
19 If these figures are right that we 've been given by the department and I 'm not saying them whether they 're right or whether they 're wrong but well we have to r rely on what we 're getting this is why Mr is sending this lot to the Chief Executive for him to do some work I think it 's very important that it is done independently , not by the independent sector but by done independently .
20 But mind you , according to some people it was virtually impossible for him to beget any bastards , but still .
21 Oh it 'd be better for him to put that fire on at night time and go over in the morning and switch it off .
22 He shouted at me so I sat under the table and waited for him to put some food down .
23 For him to make that sort of joke on the recording was in keeping with the impression Charles was beginning to form of his character .
24 As he pushed away the empty plates she waited for him to make some comment about the meal .
25 In spite of my appeals for him to make some effort to intervene with the King , who could often attain success with a father bent on violent punishment , Kareem dismissed my cries of alarm with unconcealed irritation and insisted the subject be dropped .
26 She was waiting for him to make some reply , and he said slowly : ‘ I guess you must be homesick , now Captain Dawson is n't here . ’
27 I am not ready for him to achieve that moment of glory .
28 Roland asked if it was in order for him to study these jottings .
29 Mr. Wadsworth considered this matter in the present case , and he was of the view that the criticism being made in the notice with regard to the Order 29 point of the County Court Rules was sufficient for it to be necessary for him to bring these proceedings by way of appeal before this court .
30 If he considers an authority 's budget excessive — or , indeed , considers it an excessive increase on the previous year 's budget — that is sufficient reason for him to cap that authority .
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