Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in this instance , he is only too aware of the kind of judgements I may make about him as a child reader , and tailors his reply accordingly . |
| 2 | Mother cared for him with a gentleness born out of genuine relief at still having him to care for . |
| 3 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 4 | It is precisely such a person who can be brought lowest by the hateful things that may be reported about him in a court of law . |
| 5 | At the end , you get to be inside Richie 's head as he righteously kicks the poor woman to death after she 's come for him with a hatchet in each hand . |
| 6 | Teal saw torch beams bobbing towards him from a side corridor and grabbed Bernice 's arm . |
| 7 | It was n't a conscious move on her part , and yet , once open to his erotically roving tongue , she was helpless to do anything except melt against him with a low moan as the same desire as yesterday curled through her stomach . |
| 8 | They rallied behind him despite an interview at the weekend in which he suggested he had considered the possibility of a contest for the leadership after this year . |
| 9 | Climbing up him like a vine . ’ |
| 10 | He took the girls to the swimming pool after midnight , and then persuaded the victim to come with him to a changing room , on the pretext that the manager of the swimming pool might find them at the pool . |
| 11 | Richard 's round brown eyes , normally bright and birdlike , drilled into him without a trace of humour . |
| 12 | When , after a hazardous journey through thickening fog , using only the statutory semi-blacked-out lights , he asked her if she would care to dine with him at a roadhouse not far from their destination , she accepted with alacrity . |
| 13 | This special tribute in WWF News attempts , however inadequately , to give WWF supporters and staff a picture of what Peter 's many qualities and leadership skills meant to some of those who have been privileged to work with him in a great adventure . |
| 14 | All AE 's immediately turned to stare at one of their number a poker-faced young man , who described any client who would n't buy from him as a " cunt " even scribbling comments to that effect on the client record cards . |
| 15 | Jack thought of his mother 's anguish and his stepfather 's injuries and anger rose in him like a demon . |
| 16 | His most effective action so far has been to deflect the corruption allegations by recruiting Spain 's ‘ Mr Clean ’ to stand alongside him as a Socialist candidate . |
| 17 | Crowding round him for a share are , from left to right , Rousseau , Poupee and Héra ( her tiny son Hector just visible on her belly ) . |
| 18 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 19 | He started off carrying something like a seventy- to eighty-pound pack of tinned foods and dried foods , his only companion a lurcher dog walking beside him on a length of clothesline . |
| 20 | He tries to convey to her the vital importance that their complex relationship has to him as a counterpoint to his work on the New Jerusalem . |
| 21 | How could she get through an evening in his company when everything that was female in her responded to him in a way that knocked her totally off balance ? |
| 22 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 23 | He did talk about his time as the Dauphin in a way that made people fairly sure that if the Stratford management had come to him with an offer , he would have grabbed it . |
| 24 | And then he was passing beneath the huge , towering Gates , and he saw how they stretched above him into infinity , and he felt the timelessness of the great Prison descend on him like a huge , unseen weight . |
| 25 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 26 | Fred Archer referred to him as a ‘ pretty ’ jockey . |
| 27 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 28 | It occurred to him as a possibility , for instance , that , prior to being ‘ kept alive ’ for ten days , Dobson might first have been murdered . |
| 29 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 30 | His qualities as a Christian king are extolled in a letter addressed to him by a certain Aurelian , who was once identified with the bishop of Arles of that name . |