Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worries streak towards him like enemy spaceships in one of Gary 's video games . |
| 2 | He then watched separatist parties advance on him from both eastern and western Canada . |
| 3 | He sees clearly how things stand , and the words come to him with which to describe them . |
| 4 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 5 | Evans ' 100 inch fixed gear was too small for him on the way out , but he kept it turning on the harder return leg to edge ahead of the Phoenix rider repeating his eight second win over him at Newtownards last week . |
| 6 | Friends and relatives speak of him in glowing terms . |
| 7 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 8 | Geoff Hurst 's maitre d ’ demeanour advertised that he was open for business — he 's the one who has been able to make his World Cup exploits play for him in recent years ; he 's semi-permanently on the road with an old-ones-are-the-best-ones floorshow and anecdotal package . |
| 9 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 10 | He was ashamed that Michael had heard his father-in-law speak to him like that . |
| 11 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 12 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 13 | People talk about him in the pub on Sundays . |
| 14 | People bid for him at auctions , a guy called Henry Glinwood mostly — ‘ an anonymous buyer ’ — but his reputation goes before him . ’ |
| 15 | People turn to him for mature counsel . |
| 16 | ‘ High or low will seldom suit the taste of a painter who will always move over the surface of his near grounds till the component parts of his subject appear to him to be arranged in the best possible order . ’ |
| 17 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 18 | With human-like mouth and hands , and enormous eyes in a head which can swivel 180 degrees , the Dyaks of Borneo refer to him as hantu — meaning " ancestral spirit " . |
| 19 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 20 | Samantha look at him with my glasses on . |
| 21 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 22 | The child who is encouraged to be a self-respecting individual , however , will carry that impression of himself forward into adulthood and will find that others respond to him as someone worthy of their respect . |
| 23 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 24 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 25 | He wanted to feel warmed through to his spine , to have the comfort steal into him like strong ale . |
| 26 | The devil and sin exist for him as states of mind in which the true location of the godhead is not recognized , even though such unenlightened awareness still functions as a praise of God . |
| 27 | His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender . |