Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] him [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 2 | His notebooks show him hesitating between reminiscence ( ‘ It was exactly eight years ago ’ ) and testimony during trial ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell everything ’ ) . |
| 3 | The slightly bent legs enable him to spring into action immediately , whereas stiff-locked legs would first have to become unlocked before attacking . |
| 4 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 5 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 6 | Some of his feats make him sound like the Bionic Man . |
| 7 | The traveller , we now discover , is a young man whose ailing parents want him to stay within reach . |
| 8 | When at last his parents find him sitting among the teachers in the Temple , they ask him what he is doing . |
| 9 | He has built up a reputation for naïvely self-important pronouncements on the state of the world and for a determined shunning of personal publicity , but circumstances force him to stand by his words when the Evallonian Royalists seek his support . |
| 10 | The Danish mid-thirteenth-century Annales Ryenses have him deposed in favour of Cnut for effeminacy , and Cnut then replaced by Harald because of absence from Denmark , but restored after Harald 's death . |
| 11 | John became a justice of the Common Bench in Easter term 1275 and the formal records of the court show him acting as a justice continuously down to the end of 1289 . |
| 12 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 13 | ‘ Then will you men tell him to speak to the farm manager ? ’ said Bathsheba in a businesslike way , as she rode off . |
| 14 | Wardens find him sitting in a fake oak tree beside the replica of a female tawny owl . |
| 15 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 16 | Do n't we want write and in fact get him to come to the next meeting then |