Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 2 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 3 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 4 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 5 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 6 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 7 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 8 | He says that Wilko always talked in riddles with him , became jealous at his popularity and so sold him to the scum so he would appear to be a traitor . |
| 9 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 10 | From that time on he improved in leaps and bounds and eventually , after about seven months , I started gingerly walking him around the small paddock next to his box with a bridle and a lunge rein threaded through his bit and over his head . |
| 11 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 12 | In the end the man became so nervous that I had to hold his arm and literally steer him through the crowd to the right spot . |
| 13 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 14 | The former England batsman also claimed that Donald was not a one-day cricketer and that Warwickshire only used him with the new ball in such games . |
| 15 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 16 | His present celebrity is a fairly recent phenomenon , and he insists that it has not really affected him , although he acknowledges that his appearances on television shows and in magazine profiles have somewhat robbed him of the anonymity which still clings to his ‘ invisible ’ friend , Cartier-Bresson . |
| 17 | By 1864 his interest in Christianity and his deference to family expectations were still strong enough to lead him to the choice of theology as one of his two subjects at Bonn ; but there is no doubt that belief was a thing of the past . |
| 18 | So long as a judge keeps silent his reputation for wisdom and impartiality remains unassailable : but every utterance which he makes in public , except in the course of the actual performance of his judicial duties , must necessarily bring him within the focus of criticism . |
| 19 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 20 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 21 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 22 | On the first landing he stopped and stole a glance down the Nightingale Gallery , so engrossed he jumped when Allingham suddenly touched him on the shoulder . |
| 23 | That was good enough to put him in the lead for the amateur half of the tournament . |
| 24 | He was magnificent again at Anfield and I personally thanked him after the game for what he had done . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 26 | She sat down to study him across the table . |
| 27 | Surely the manager could have massaged his ego enough to keep him at the club . |
| 28 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 29 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 30 | And , although he had recently been known to talk to an invisible giant white rabbit and peek at his neighbours through binoculars , neither of these traits were deemed enough to blacken him in the eyes of the electors . |