Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet had he decided the reverse it was already clear that the League of Nations lacked the will-power to say him nay . |
| 2 | Of course , she should have somehow found the nerve to divorce him ages ago . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 4 | But out of pity for Bouchard 's poverty , Geoffrey prevailed on the abbot to allow him possession of the mill for the rest of his life . |
| 5 | Trust the colonel to give him chapter and verse . |
| 6 | She took her coffee from him and shifted across the bed to give him room to lie down . |
| 7 | More likely in case he should go along the road to ease him self on Alice Mulcahy . |
| 8 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 9 | At about seven his mother returned from the hospital to make him breakfast , looking utterly exhausted and reporting no change in his stepfather 's condition . |
| 10 | Mr Faulks said of the application for the house loan : ‘ What we say he was doing here is , being unable to obtain loans in any other way , he is pretending to be selling his house to this fictitious person in order to get the bank to give him £43,000 on the strength of his house which they would otherwise not have given him . ’ |
| 11 | However , on their first night she felt like a patient strapped to an operating table without the benefit of an anaesthetic ; and the surgeon was not only blind but expected the patient to give him directions . |
| 12 | Staff said they could n't afford the time to supervise him constantly.But although it may have been convenient to social workers to restrain a stroke victim in a trolley , Peter Chandler has one word to describe the experience : |
| 13 | Whatever the origin of the revolt , by early 1183 it had been transformed into a struggle to make him Duke of Aquitaine in place of the " tyrannical " Richard . |
| 14 | ‘ Besides , ’ Theda added , her eyes flashing , ‘ after the way he spoke to me , I am not of a mind to hand him gifts . ’ |
| 15 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 16 | 872 an able seaman successfully sued the master of the Mobile on a promise to pay him £40 if he would assist in taking the ship from Port Philip to Bombay with a crew of 19 hands . |
| 17 | Besides , adds Damon , he does n't need an agent to find him scripts , because he 's planning to write his own . |