Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him about going to the Highlands and seeing the wonderful colours there and he just looked at me and said ‘ too amorphous ’ . |
| 2 | I told him about taking six months off and doing rep in the provinces just to get back in touch with live acting and live audiences and he reacted as if I told him I 'd had a mental breakdown . |
| 3 | ‘ He wrongly claimed I misled him by concealing knowledge of the Matrix Churchill case when I explained the Government 's policy . |
| 4 | I joined him in gazing at the large red lump forming just below the joint and we mused together . |
| 5 | But the squares I was n't sure what happens to them and I confused him by asking him . |
| 6 | There was obviously some sort of sexual element to it but I just did n't know what to do next and expected this man , who was about two or three years older than me , to , in some way , tell me or indicate to me and so I followed him without talking to him . |
| 7 | I loved him for saying that , for trying to cheer me up . |
| 8 | May I encourage him by telling him that the Chief Constable 's view is that four out of every five planned terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland are thwarted before they take place ? |
| 9 | I congratulate him on securing this debate today . |
| 10 | Then I talked him into going to London , as my plan requires . |
| 11 | When the marauder came , I glimpsed him through drifting snow and smoke . |
| 12 | When he came home he was distant and vague , and preoccupied , and in the end I accused him of having a mistress . ’ |
| 13 | I admire him for remembering the day . |
| 14 | I salute him for having the courage to come off the fence ; though he leaves many of his colleagues still perching there . |
| 15 | I join him in congratulating the industry on its export achievements — something that we never hear from the Labour party . |
| 16 | I join him in saying that the enforcement of law and order in the Province of Northern Ireland lies with Her Majesty 's Government , the Chief Constable and those who support him . |
| 17 | I strongly agree with my hon. Friend and I join him in paying tribute to the management of the health service in his part of the country . |
| 18 | But although Darwinian natural selection seems plainly to deny primacy either to egoism or to altruism , it is interesting to notice that nearly everyone has preconceptions which hinder him from coming fully to terms with the evidence . |
| 19 | Here the testee is presented with a set of questions or checklists which steer him into trying to think carefully about his own interests . |
| 20 | The only thing which stopped him from making an outright proposal of marriage was the knowledge that he had no security to offer whatsoever . |
| 21 | We were later told about Piggy 's asthma which stopped him from doing many physical things like swimming and running . |
| 22 | Lowe continued his career until 1871 when he fell victim to a pulmonary disease which prevented him from joining the services for the deaf at the new St. Saviour 's Church . |
| 23 | Born into a provincial Liberal family in 1858 , Hobson developed unorthodox views which prevented him from securing an academic career in his chosen field of economics . |
| 24 | In Routh v Jones [ 1947 ] 1 All ER 758 the Court of Appeal held that a restraint on a medical assistant to a partnership which prevented him from practising " in any department of medicine , surgery or midwifery ( or accepting ) any professional appointment " was unreasonable because it covered , inter alia , practice as a consultant or medical officer of health . |
| 25 | What was worrying him more , he said , was the language barrier which prevented him from linking up with his Japanese teammates . |
| 26 | Lee was challenged by a powerful conservative faction which threatened him with selecting instead Lin Yang-kan , the populist president of the Judicial Yuan and Gen. Chiang Wei-kuo , Chiang Kai-shek 's only surviving son . |
| 27 | It is Artegall 's required attendance at the Faerie Court which prevents him from completing the renewal of justice in Eirena 's kingdom , and it is Elizabeth , A View of the Present State of Ireland makes clear , who halted the necessary civilising action undertaken by the New English there : |
| 28 | Certainly , the law will not imply a term which prevents him from doing so . |
| 29 | García had rejected the verdict of a year-long investigation by a special congressional commission which accused him of authorizing the placing of a third of Central Bank reserves ( US$270,000,000 ) into the Panamanian branch of the now discredited Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see p. 38355 ) in return for US$3,000,000 in bribes . |
| 30 | It was reported on March 10 that fresh charges had been filed against Enrile which accused him of attempting corruptly to seize control of the country 's coconut industry . |