Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 2 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 3 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 4 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 5 | Eden wrote : ‘ After three months without a comment from the Prime Minister ’ ( he had not seen him during this period , which included the ‘ internationalization ’ of the Spanish Civil War ) , ‘ I found this an astonishing doctrine , ’ |
| 6 | I have not seen him since this morning . ’ |
| 7 | Freud believed that at the root of all neuroses lay repressed sexual desires , but even if one does not follow him in this , it would be hard to resist the conclusion that this was true of some of his patients . |
| 8 | ‘ But now he claims that as he has found work independently , I can no longer employ him in this capacity . ’ |
| 9 | Mitch looked stunned and she felt an incredible burst of guilt that she had not told him about this girl 's problem . |
| 10 | He was normally shown , holding a double axe and thunderbolt , standing on a bull , thus linking him with this important fertility image . |
| 11 | We can not blame him for this — he has his career to think of — but we must protest when he puts on his most earnest face and lectures the other two parties . |
| 12 | We must not blame him for this for he is a product of the evolution which used that very ruthlessness to make him just what he is , and what we all are at the beginning of our lives . |
| 13 | She would not , could not leave him for this boy ! |
| 14 | She saw that he had changed colour , and , always affected by other people 's feelings , she now experienced some of his embarrassment and wished she had not put him in this position . |
| 15 | His message got through : Laniel approved a proposal to send a Socialist Deputy , Alain Savary , to open up preliminary talks , but Bidault , now Foreign Minister and still a hawk , refused : ‘ Ho Chi Minh is giving in ; do not support him by this contact . ’ |
| 16 | Young Daniel 's death had been as great a tragedy , but had not taken him like this . |
| 17 | But his wisdom would not help him in this instance . |
| 18 | He would be going out soon , but an umbilical cord would still tie him to this house of death . |
| 19 | Had you ever met him before this weekend ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I never felt that Jesus was a friend and I do n't think that I really ever loved him before this half but now he seems always near to me and I like to think of Him more than I ever did before Mama 's dying so suddenly and unexpectedly made a great impression on me … ’ |
| 21 | His familiarity with every stick and stone of it probably helped him to this preference . |
| 22 | Other Palestinian groups , including the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) and even Syrian-based " rejectionist " groups , also supported him in this . |
| 23 | I 'd rather have him like this . ’ |
| 24 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 25 | Understandably , many of his old flock in Kidderminster severely criticised him for this . |
| 26 | ‘ I reckon his best chance would be as a goal-kicking winger but I do n't want him in this role for Widnes . |
| 27 | We ca n't trust him after this . ’ |
| 28 | I have n't seen him since this morning . ’ |
| 29 | I thought we agreed you would n't see him till this was over . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I ca n't see him like this , Liddy ! ’ said Bathsheba , looking in horror at her dusty dress . |