Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't be provocative , Robyn , ’ he murmured , lifting her chin towards him with one light touch of his finger . |
| 2 | Her thighs were well spread , her back arched , and her backside was thrust out towards him like some amorous baboon . |
| 3 | The little cunt who made me parade in front of him at eight thirty in the morning so I erm |
| 4 | The despatches that mapped every move he planned went into Wales ahead of him by this same route . |
| 5 | If he had come by car , then she would n't have to endure the sight of him in all that black leather gear looking like something from Star Wars . |
| 6 | The moment she thought of Peter , then Martin ( no , she would not think of him in that ridiculous way with a small m ) no longer looked so good , so handsome . |
| 7 | ( I think of him in some tropical Valhalla , rejoined with Arsenio . |
| 8 | ‘ To think of him in any other role , to plot and connive for his affections — even to think of his putting his own desires and inclinations before his duty to God and the realm , is treason of the highest order . |
| 9 | Dressed in a pair of faded old jeans and a warm cotton shirt that strained to contain the body it covered , he was clearly quite at home in his role as chef , and for a moment she watched , strangely drawn by the sight of him in this unexpected setting . |
| 10 | His audience was against him on all these questions and there was no enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Early in 833 , rumours were rife of the political conjuncture Louis the Pious had most feared , and hitherto avoided : the alliance against him of all three adult sons . |
| 12 | His whole life 's work twisted against him in one poisonous little rumour . |
| 13 | Wandering aimlessly down one of the grim , draughty passageways of the castle , with Ranulf trailing behind him like some morose dog , Corbett almost bumped into Benstede and his strange body-servant , Aaron . |
| 14 | He squeezed Corbett 's arm , ‘ Take care , Master Clerk , ’ and continued on his way , his servant padding behind him like some silent dark shadow . |
| 15 | Jasper Carrott once brought a portable TV along with him to one particular charity do to while away the hours in his dressing room . |
| 16 | ‘ Come with him to this damned bedroom ! |
| 17 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 18 | I arranged with Dick that w Bill would be with him for two two and a half hours . |
| 19 | Our best wishes go to John and his family and we look forward to working with him for another 15 year . |
| 20 | And as Jake nodded , Shiona reluctantly resigned herself to being trapped at the table with him for another little while . |
| 21 | But Lord Aldington insisted : ‘ I most definitely saw him on May 25 and I remember having dinner with him on two successive nights around this time . |
| 22 | In February '91 Tony started an essay on Arafat , ‘ I hooked up with him on two different occasions , over the course of a couple months , trying to do a photo-essay on him ; which was probably the most ridiculous thing to do the first time out of the box for a while — talk about a third-rate Keystone kops movie , with me as the star ! ’ |
| 23 | Premier John Major could clash with him on five big issues . |
| 24 | He reminded North that it was possible for an American to disagree with him on that particular , ‘ and still love God , and still love this country just as much as you do ’ ; although He was regularly asked to do so , ‘ God does not take sides in American politics . ’ |
| 25 | Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould . |
| 26 | ‘ Why you took up with him on this unlikely enterprise . ’ |
| 27 | It was only because it was so rare that Stair ever troubled with him at all these days that Neil felt compelled to go along with him , willy-nilly . |
| 28 | Coming face to face with him after all this time had been a shock ; she had not known quite how she would react . |
| 29 | I did not then have a chance actually to converse with him until that second evening after the return of his illness . |
| 30 | The Major encouraged him , then walked him round in a circle , conversing with him in low reassuring tones . |