Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 2 | Almost twenty years alter the incident Coleridge was persuaded by Byron to publish the poem , and he then made the sensational claim that he had been able to remember 200 to 300 lines of perfect poetry when he had awoken from a drug-induced sleep , and was busy writing them down when he was interrupted by someone from Porlock demanding to see him on business . |
| 3 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 4 | First , top scorer Dalien Atkinson missed the starting line-up after revolutionary oxygen chamber treatment failed to heal him in time to face his old club . |
| 5 | Each soul he devoured lanced him with anguish , torment . |
| 6 | Finally she agreed to meet him for lunch the following week , and they agreed a time and a place . |
| 7 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 8 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 9 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 10 | Gough has been slow to respond to a groin injury which has plagued him since September and has been sidelined since the win over Celtic on November 7 . |
| 11 | In view of the complaints of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the virulence of Leese 's propaganda , the government tried to silence him through recourse to the law . |
| 12 | It helped push him towards resignation . ’ |
| 13 | Mozart then wrote asking if he could bring his cousin , Maria Thekla , with him ( she has joined him in Munich ) but realising that this would necessitate another delay whilst the ‘ Basle ’ waited for permission from her father in Augsburg , Leopold insisted that his son travel on ahead , and that his niece should follow . |
| 14 | ‘ Have you … tried to see him in hospital ? ’ |
| 15 | But then I tried to seduce him with poetry . |
| 16 | I have n't spoken to Mr Boldwood since the autumn , when I promised to see him at Christmas , so I 'll have to go . |
| 17 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 18 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 19 | Lambert tried to douse him with wine . |
| 20 | President Brad Burnham says the amount of information FlashPort generates about a programme as it attempts to translate it from one platform to another has presented him with pricing and packaging issues . |
| 21 | Gloucester Crown Court heard that 24 year old Michael Jones headbutted and punched PC Kevin Frost as he tried to arrest him on suspicion of damaging a burger bar in Cheltenham . |
| 22 | So he relaxes and enjoys a brief dance with her after she has fed him with cherries . |
| 23 | When American writer Lester Bangs toured England with The Clash , Bernie Rhodes tried to set him on fire . |
| 24 | Two whole sizes bigger than his father Northern Dancer , Nijinsky has matched him at stud . |
| 25 | Only God 's intervention has saved him from death by stoning . |
| 26 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an offduty police Inspector David Cammish and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 27 | Police were alerted and a member of the Redcar crew , an off-duty police inspector , David Cammish , and a psychologist tried to talk him to safety . |
| 28 | I tried to engage him in conversation about the analogy between pottery and alchemy , and Laura prompted him to share ideas that had long been familiar to them both , but he showed little interest . |
| 29 | MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life . |
| 30 | The author displays a perfect mastery of his subject ; his legendary library has helped him to single out a wealth of comparable material , and his practical knowledge of specific features of construction and style extends to such details as , for example , Riesener 's handmade steel screws . |