Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is there anyone you know who thought Mills was a traitor and cared enough to see him dead ? ’ |
| 2 | Micky Stewart has since kept him involved in international get togethers and is clearly an admirer . |
| 3 | A nurse has secretly slipped him some strips of paper in his hands . |
| 4 | It is this element of Charlie that has perhaps made him popular with other ( albeit less twisted ) musicians . |
| 5 | A hugely impressive return of eight goals from just 11 games is a true reflection of his amazing turnaround and it has already made him one of the buys of the season , even at that sizeable price tag . |
| 6 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 7 | Someone has probably thrown him some rubbish which he 's swallowed . ’ |
| 8 | Franca had in fact tried vainly to waken him that morning , stirring him a little and calling his name . |
| 9 | The move to SNH has also taken him closer to his roots in Yorkshire and one of the big loves of his life — cricket . |
| 10 | The probing nature of his role , acting as an ‘ expert ’ on behalf of the government to push the reform stragglers along , has inevitably made him unpopular in some social services quarters . |
| 11 | His heartbreaking search across the world has now brought him more joy than he ever wished for — and more than 100 relatives ! |
| 12 | It has never given him any trouble , but we 've always kept an eye on it . |
| 13 | Such colour as there was in Tutilo 's weary face slowly drained away to leave him grey and mute . |
| 14 | But wanting only frustrated him more . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd have done better to leave him alone . ’ |
| 16 | Her lips clamped together and she stared at him in horror , unable to believe she 'd really asked him such a question . |
| 17 | And for a moment there she 'd actually thought him capable of humanity . |
| 18 | Fear often made him sarcastic ; he had noticed that before . |
| 19 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 20 | It was easy for him ; the cloak of arrogance he habitually wore probably made him oblivious to the speculation of people like the receptionist . |
| 21 | But they would n't come just to tell him that either . |
| 22 | But in Urquhart , standing there facing him that night , she encountered a ratchet that had broken free of its retaining spring and was spinning in reverse . |
| 23 | Not knowing what lay ahead made him excited and nervous but he could n't help wanting to discover what was behind a door or round the next corner . |
| 24 | He had a charismatic quality about him that had long made him one of Europe 's most eligible bachelors . |
| 25 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 26 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 27 | She felt her legs grab Terry 's thighs and was trying desperately to push him further inside her . |
| 28 | He had not been so happy with the farmland which went with the Fish ; his town talents ( he was from Cockermouth , about ten miles away ) had given him neither the patience nor the experience for such niggling country work and — as he was a man who took advice badly — his neighbours had soon left him alone to rot alone . |
| 29 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 30 | He had been sitting at a table in the corner reading an Italian newspaper and Sandison had hardly paid him any attention . |