Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 3 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 4 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 5 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 6 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 7 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 8 | A member of the mathematics advisory team was invited by the headteacher to work in the school and while it was not compulsory , it was assumed that every teacher would work with him at some stage . |
| 9 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's the matter ? ’ he enquired , obviously unhappy to have her looming over him like some avenging goddess . |
| 11 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 12 | The missing leg dropped down and kicked , and the officer threw the con man away , chattering at him in some dialect . |
| 13 | ROS and GUIL , holding the belts taut , stare at him in some bewilderment . |
| 14 | Until the age of seven , Nicholas had received a treat every year on the Feast Day of his patron ; and from the age of ten he grew to know that the day would generally be marked for him in some way or another — in many different ways , although not every year — until , of course , his wife Marian died . |
| 15 | It was a considerable risk ; he knew perfectly well that Graham Moloney would certainly disagree with him with some violence . |
| 16 | Her heart gave a little lurch as she thought about running into him at some time , which she was bound to do . |
| 17 | Those of us privileged to have spoken to him at some length and to have seen his fascinating family albums would have known of his boyhood tea with Hitler , his Military Medal midstream in some Eastern battlefield and a host of other incidents . |
| 18 | When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is . |
| 19 | I mean , if he did go off into the wilds of Anatolia , or somewhere remote like that — something might happen to him in some village , where he is n't known . ’ |
| 20 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 21 | The last thing she wanted , she said , was to live with him in some godforsaken bog , cut off from relatives and shops . |
| 22 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 23 | I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless . |
| 24 | Her face was on a level with his ; she stared at him for some seconds before she said quietly , ‘ You need n't be concerned that you might have started something ; I 've got no ideas that way . |
| 25 | She stared at him in some amazement , and looking rather confused , João backed out and left her with her Imitation . |
| 26 | Startled by his sharp tone , Fabia stared at him in some surprise . |
| 27 | And while she stared at him in some astonishment , ‘ I would never harm you , ’ he added . |
| 28 | As Ranald looked at him with some concern , the old man waved him off . |
| 29 | Robbie looked at him with some anxiety . |
| 30 | Passers-by looked at him in some curiosity , seeing the tears course down his cheeks ; and still he walked on and on . |