Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] him [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 2 | Mind you I suppose his head is erm smaller than his shoulders so that makes him like like a , sort of normal person . |
| 3 | But it was I mean you have to admit erm and I 'm I 'll bring Mr Power in and let him speak for himself , but you have to admit that it from what we 've just heard , it started in nineteen seventy four , it 's been going on a long time . |
| 4 | Selkirk pushed him in and made him squat on a stone ledge while he cut free his bound hands only to fasten gyves to his wrists and ankles ; attached by chains to the wall ; these allowed Corbett to move but quickly chafed his wrists and ankles . |
| 5 | Carrie said , ‘ She must be stark mad to come in and let him see her like that . |
| 6 | But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties . |
| 7 | In the end I had to get it down and let him have a sniff before he . |
| 8 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've had to go back up in to him , yeah , but I do n't know what happened last night , I do n't know whether he was not quite tired enough , erm , he must of got up as soon as I put him down and started sort of moaning then I went into the girls and I sorted them out he started screaming he did , so I had to go to him in and lay him down and making him lay down |
| 10 | She 'll lie down and let him walk over her till the end of her days . |
| 11 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 12 | She heard rather than saw him dive into the water and a moment later he surfaced beside her . |
| 13 | She felt rather than heard him say her name . |
| 14 | ‘ At least then the drummer feels he 's done something ; it 's using technology to help him , rather than making him feel he 's being replaced . ’ |
| 15 | But he was well liked , and his colleagues , rather than see him lose his job , would roll the old man into a hollow , covering him with heather to keep out the damp , and leave him sleeping soundly until the end of the day . |
| 16 | I will grant the most hardened criminal a reprieve rather than see him hang . |
| 17 | They were prepared to kill the journalist Broom-Parker rather than let him talk to me . |
| 18 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
| 19 | Jezrael 's fingers crisped into the grit beneath her ; even her face worked with the adrenalin that surged up , so much did she want to shove him away and make him save himself . |
| 20 | I promised to think it over and let him know . ’ |
| 21 | Not and let him hear it . |
| 22 | Her hands flew to his shoulders , but whether to fend him off or make him stay she could not have said . |
| 23 | " For pity 's sake be still and let him get a word in edgeways . " |
| 24 | ‘ I know he 's tired out and that 's the way he relaxes , but I long to switch the television off and make him listen to me , ’ she complained . |
| 25 | But things progressed from there , and Hugh began to ask her to take her clothes off and to let him touch her . |
| 26 | ‘ The answer is to stand off and let him play in front of you , rather than wrestling his way round the back . ’ |
| 27 | Nutty had gone up to have a nose , sat behind the oil-drum stack early and seen him leave . |
| 28 | A waiter came up and made him put it on again . |
| 29 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
| 30 | You know what it 's like to bear a child and bring him up and see him leave you and go to the other side of the world , knowing you 'll not see him again ? |