Example sentences of "[prep] him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 2 | Bregawn 's temperament got the better of him the following season , and on his racecourse appearances he displayed increasing sourness . |
| 3 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 4 | He saw ahead of him the bowed back of Byrkin , hunched head in hands with an empty bowl in front of him on the table . |
| 5 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 6 | He thought that to remain would look ‘ unsporting ’ and would count against him the next time . |
| 7 | Behind him the eastern sky was already brightening , and the wasteland , which had been a formless void of darkness above the lumpy earth , was assuming an identity and a shape . |
| 8 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 9 | Somewhere behind him the huge figure loped . |
| 10 | The Prince , who had important paperwork to attend to at Buckingham Palace , asked her to drive back with him the following day . |
| 11 | ‘ I — had a word with him the other day . |
| 12 | ‘ I was with him the other night and some of the things he was saying , I know that if he found out about us … ’ |
| 13 | In fact I had dinner with him the other night … ’ |
| 14 | Although there are no hon. Members from Scottish constituencies in their places at the moment , my hon. Friend the Minister made a passing reference to Scotland , which is one of the issues that I discussed with him the other evening . |
| 15 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 16 | Oh yeah , I , but I did n't realize you know with him the old man , the toughy , yeah |
| 17 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 18 | Just ring him up and have lunch with him the next day and it 'll be all right . ’ |
| 19 | With him the slightest gesture would produce positive results . |
| 20 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 21 | She would be the first to know , then he would throw a party to tell his friends who had graduated from the Red Army Academy with him the previous year . |
| 22 | I ran into him the other day . ’ |
| 23 | Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear . |
| 24 | In the epistle to the Hebrews ( by an unknown Christian of learning and sophistication ) there is equal emphasis both upon the spontaneity and fullness of Jesus ' humanity and upon the faith that in him the eternal Son of the Father has come to unite believers to himself ; he is the pioneer of our salvation , our representative bringing to the Father and to the heavenly company those who put their trust in him . |
| 25 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 26 | Events which begin by offering the boy exciting adventure end by teaching him — about people , about statecraft — and confirming in him the steadfast loyalty to the Empire which is evident in his later exploits . |
| 27 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 28 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 29 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 30 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |