Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 2 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 3 | Ron does n't remember this tall , slightly gawky figure approaching him at all . |
| 4 | Unix pioneer Larry Michels , president , chairman , chief executive and co-founder of The Santa Cruz Operation Inc , has resigned in the wake of a civil suit filed by three former executive secretaries charging him with sexual harassment ( UX No 415 , 416 ) . |
| 5 | The floor plunged at him , the faces at the feast blurring with noise ; he made out Bragad watching him with sharp eyes . |
| 6 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 7 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 8 | I 'm sure it was Jan egging him on that got him expelled from the Rainbow Crche . |
| 9 | There 's no point leaving him with half a harem , and there 's no way of telling who 's important and who 's not . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 11 | Saunders is fed up with speculation linking him with other clubs , Newcastle being the latest to show an interest , following Spurs and Aston Villa . |
| 12 | It will be a sweet moment for Emburey whose tour seemed doomed when he was savaged by various Indian batsmen in the early games , Test opener Navjot Sidhu hitting him for eight sixes in the second three-day warm-up fixture at Lucknow . |
| 13 | The development of this part of the plot is swift , Lear 's impatient anger leading him from one self-imposed crisis to another . |
| 14 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 15 | He yelled this in case I had trouble hearing him from six inches away . |
| 16 | Coleman had met Ross in 1981 while writing his book Squeal , in which he described how Las Vegas superstar Wayne Newton had sued Ross and Silverman over an NBC story connecting him with organized crime . |
| 17 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 18 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 19 | Why risk seeing him at all ? |
| 20 | Even so , the image of Chung Hu-yan waking him with awful news persisted , until he realised what it was . |
| 21 | Though living with his father in Dearborn , near Detroit , Kalid visited his mother and grandfather in the Bekaa Valley several times a year , a family duty providing him with perfect cover for the job of courier in the DEA 's stepped-up programme of controlled heroin deliveries . |
| 22 | Kenneth Baker said law and order was one of the most common issues greeting him during this campaign . |
| 23 | For weeks now Afshr 's office had been chaotic , besieged every day by rich men and rich women reminding him of past favours , promising him future ones . |
| 24 | Klein , who denied the reports linking him to Colombian drug dealers , was committed for trial on June 1 , 1990 , charged with illegally exporting Israeli military expertise . |
| 25 | One of the more experienced printers remembers Laura asking him at this time to ‘ have a go ’ at producing a pattern she liked . |
| 26 | that 's still not it as much as er Robert Maxwell lost and seem , ca , see the Labour party nailing him for that , no you do n't because he was a head of a Labour party paper |
| 27 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 28 | And Mr Corker has received letters from the tourism office advising him of financial help available for expansion plans . |