Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 2 | the strangeness of that thought suddenly made him miss the château . |
| 3 | Her eyes fluttered open , only to find him screwing the cap to the bottle . |
| 4 | Reason tells him he is mad to want to continue farming , but the desire to do so leads him to rationalise the decision as best he can . |
| 5 | ‘ I think they will if you can get the Old Man to twist the Khedive 's arm enough to persuade him to withdraw the levy . ’ |
| 6 | Although his commitments and the size of his salary only allow him to pay the £15 monthly premium rather than a higher amount , he regards DOUBLE PAYMENT as a very low-cost way to both save the future and guarantee a large cash sum for his family if they have to claim . |
| 7 | Well I 'm only asking him to lift the bags . |
| 8 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 9 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 10 | Now , in cases where he was convinced of the correctness of his choice of the homœopathic medicine , in order to obtain more benefit for the patient than he was able to get hitherto from prescribing a single small dose , the idea often naturally struck him to increase the dose … and , for instance , in place of giving a single very minute globule moistened with the medicine in the highest dynamization , to administer six , seven or eight of them at once , and even a half or a whole drop . |
| 11 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 12 | For the reader about to abandon the book this may easily uncover previously undisclosed information ; for the committed reader it can add to his overall perspective on the book , thus helping him understand the relation of the parts to the whole , e.g. D. Marquand , Ramsay MacDonald ( 1977 ) , is about more than a former Prime Minister . |
| 13 | I always said yes , even if I was drained , because I did not want him to chuck the ball to someone else . ’ |
| 14 | They did not want him to make the comparison himself . |
| 15 | But that did not prevent him seeing the possible significance of what she had told him . |
| 16 | This did not prevent him joining the revolt of Henry , third Earl of Lancaster [ q.v. ] , against the corrupt government of Queen Isabella [ q.v. ] and Roger Mortimer , first Earl of March [ q.v. ] , in 1328 . |
| 17 | She had no excuse for going into his part of the house and she had not seen him near the servants ’ quarters since that first afternoon . |
| 18 | No I just told him to revise the er the cycle of the engine . |
| 19 | Paisley was back in prison , this time for his part in the Armagh demonstrations , but that did not stop him characterizing the Cameron Commission as a betrayal of the Ulster people to the rebels . |
| 20 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |
| 21 | ‘ Can I help you ? ’ she asked , trying not to let him see the amusement in her blue eyes . |
| 22 | Determined not to let him keep the advantage , she bundled the unwanted attraction she felt for him into a cupboard and locked the door on it , before retorting sweetly , ‘ Well , as your invitation was so pressing , I thought I might as well take full advantage of it . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 24 | On June 28 , he suffered a major setback when the lower house voted by 283 votes to 100 , with nine abstentions , to overrule his veto , thus requiring him to sign the bill into law within six days . |
| 25 | This did not lead him to question the principle of majority decisions ; but it did lead him to pay attention to the social , cultural and economic conditions in which the will of all , or the will of the majority , would be more rather than less likely to coincide with " the general will " , by which Rousseau meant what all of us would will if we thought of ourselves not as private individuals but as citizens identifying ourselves with the good of the community . |
| 26 | She wondered idly why Rose had not asked him to apply the sun-cream and then realised that he was not among the swimmers . |
| 27 | He was a bright child ; my father intended to send him off to school properly when the time came , and had already started him learning the alphabet . |
| 28 | Southwark Crown Court 's senior judge , Gerald Butler , QC , said recently enacted legislation did not allow him to take the man 's 30-year-old record into account . |
| 29 | He knew the Headmaster would not allow him to leave the school , not even in his good mood . |
| 30 | Satan was never wronged nor despised in Heaven ; the exaltation of the son was meant for the good of all the angels but he was so stupid his pride would not allow him to tolerate the unintentional insult . |