Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] him [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Explaining this popularity is not difficult : Edmund was himself killed by the Danes , and it was perhaps only natural that veneration for him should grow in the area which had formed his kingdom , and seen a great deal of the renewed conflict between Danes and English . |
| 2 | I 'm here to tell you that if Alan is right and big Arnie ( pictured left ) did the body beautiful business behind the Co that night , anyone who happened to take a photograph of him should send it in to me pronto . |
| 3 | She might then have been younger than Oswiu and her liaison with him could have occurred c . |
| 4 | It was against all he believed in and yet some inner part of him would stop at nothing to attract Jeopardy 's notice . |
| 5 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 6 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 7 | She was wailing now like a baby herself ; marriage with him would mean more of them , her body used every night , and no theatre again , ever . |
| 8 | I 'm absolutely sure that a chat with him would help you . |
| 9 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 10 | Milken refused to play the game of domino justice , so the case against him will stand or fall on its own merits . |
| 11 | James III 's idea of soldiering abroad , for example , to win renown and territory in Brittany and the county to the south , Saintonge , and in Guelders , was blocked by resistance at home ; in 1473 parliament tartly pointed out that if renown was what he was after , what he should be doing was ‘ to travel through his realm and put such justice and policy in his own realm that the brute and the fame of him might pass in other countries ’ . |
| 12 | Also , do not allow a player to make the ball dead behind his own goal-line unless he is being tackled ; a player making the ball dead when there is no player within 10 years of him should have to take a drop-out from under the posts . |
| 13 | But at least she would be treading in his footsteps , and somewhere along the way a clearer picture of him might emerge . |
| 14 | Their quadrennial stampede for the moral high ground is more fervent than ever , as Democrat Bill Clinton and Gary Hart before him can testify . |
| 15 | If we look at Gandhi 's teaching in this connection we see that self-alienation for him would involve ignorance ( avidyā ) of the true nature of the Self ( Ātman ) . |
| 16 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 17 | The apostle Paul , answering the anxious questions of Christians whose loved ones had died , reminded them that Jesus ' own victory over death makes it certain that those who have come into a close relationship with him will share his new , full life which goes beyond the grave . |
| 18 | The patient 's attitude to you and other people around him can change dramatically because of his stroke or head injury . |
| 19 | A more definitive response to him must await the time which will probably arrive when the clergy ordination measure is taken on the Floor of the House . |
| 20 | Such a quantity of natural ability can sometimes cause inner confusion and players like him can turn a match on its head sometimes without knowing how it happened or how they did it . |
| 21 | Members of congress are , in any event , likely to be in awe of the president ; a direct telephone call from him will carry special weight as Tip O'Neill reports : ‘ The men and women in Congress love nothing better than to hear from the head guy . |
| 22 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 23 | My communication to him must take priority . |
| 24 | Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you . |
| 25 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 26 | Information about him would have to be gathered slowly and subtly . |
| 27 | The same came for a witness , to bear witness of the Light , that all men through him might believe . |
| 28 | If the treatment has caused any physical damage ( for example to your scalp or face ) visit your GP as a statement from him could help your case . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 30 | Certainly her main reason for accepting the post had nothing to do with the actual work involved , but the hope that closer acquaintance with him might throw some light on Elise 's baffling death . |