Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was sickened by Ayrton Senna 's attack on Alain Prost , the French driver he has just signed to drive for him next season . |
| 2 | If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success . |
| 3 | He had proved that he had not , after all , thrown away his how-to-train manual , despite the fact that only Rambo 's Hall has won for him this season . |
| 4 | I suppose the best thing for you to do is to book a plane ticket to London for around the beginning of April and forget about him that way . ’ |
| 5 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 6 | By s.25 : [ a ] person shall be guilty of an offence if , when not at his place of abode , he has with him any article for use in the course of or in connection with any burglary , theft or cheat . |
| 7 | I bumped into him four weeks later and he said , ‘ Oi , you made it all up ’ and I swallowed something sharp and jagged , shrivelled like a salted snail and said , ‘ Yeah I did ’ . |
| 8 | But , ’ said Terry darkly , leaning towards me , ‘ this is something you should know , if you 're lucky enough to work with him one day . ’ |
| 9 | The first job of the officer is to ‘ determine whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge that person with the offence for which he was arrested ’ . |
| 10 | It is an imaginative reaching out to grasp the reality of God , to encounter and respond to his will , and to find in him living truth . |
| 11 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 12 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |
| 13 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 14 | The guard shouted to him three times but he took no notice at all . |
| 15 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 16 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 17 | It must have , er have n't got all that worse then , here 's Tufnell comes up again , slightly faster than the other one , hits him on the pad or bit of that pad maybe , Robin Smith 's very close in there and once or twice he 's dived , he 's never quite sure whether off the pad or off bat and pad , everybody shouts at him poor chap , anyhow , catch it , a hundred and eighteen for three end of that one from Tufnell so he 's now bowled fifteen overs , two for seventeen that one was yet another maiden . |
| 18 | and he 's he 's got such a a negative way of looking at himself and everybody else looks at him that way now . |
| 19 | Have you looked at him this morning ? |
| 20 | I do n't know how Wheeler knows him except that Charles has a cottage on the Cumbermound estate so perhaps he 's come across him that way . |
| 21 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
| 22 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 23 | But he answered all the difficult questions that Harvey Smith 's younger son asked of him last night to defeat a flying round from Philip Heffer on Viewpoint . |
| 24 | ‘ The captain , Stuart Barnes , has done everything asked of him this year . |
| 25 | There is therefore some doubt as to whether broad clauses of the type that state that the firm is not obliged to disclose to the customer or take into account when acting for him any information known to the firm but unknown to the individual acting for the customer would protect the firm against allegations of non-disclosure , particularly in the case of an inexperienced customer . |
| 26 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 27 | They came for him this afternoon , Geoffrey says . |
| 28 | Nelson Mandela is the kind of celebrity that agents , publishers and film-makers dream of : a man whose seventieth birthday party filled Wembley , who outstrips Mother Theresa as a universal symbol of virtue and who has backstreets named after him 6,000 miles from home is not a difficult commodity to package . |
| 29 | He was schooled by the shadowy Loremasters of the Tower of Hoeth , who recognised in him great power . |
| 30 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |