Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the discipline itself , especially in the United States , has resolved to regard him as a leading advocate of scientific method and by subscribing to this interpretation we have at least avoided causing confusion . |
| 2 | And what 's more , Uncle Pumblechook , realizing that this boy 's fortune may be made by going to Miss Havisham 's , has offered to take him into town tonight in his carriage , and let him sleep in his own house , and deliver him tomorrow to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 3 | The mother has tried locking him in his room , and smacking him . |
| 4 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 5 | Culley wondered why she 'd decided to let him off the hook . |
| 6 | A normal family life , he repeated to himself , and smiled almost wanly at the thought of something that seemed destined to elude him for several years to come . |
| 7 | Then slowly her sense of humour began to reassert itself and she was able to laugh , remembering the look of amazement on his handsome , hawklike face when she 'd threatened to report him for sexual harassment . |
| 8 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 9 | She 'd wanted to press him to her and to stroke the thin , vulnerable nape of his neck . |
| 10 | He 'd avoided giving her a direct answer when she 'd tried to ask him about his friendship with the actress , but it was obvious that there was a very real chemistry between them . |
| 11 | But would the pain of losing him be any the less simply because she 'd managed to hold him at bay ? |
| 12 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 13 | I would n't have missed meeting him for anything . |
| 14 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 15 | She should never have had to face him by herself . ’ |
| 16 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 17 | Hanns must have replied teasing him about them , because he now wrote indignantly , ‘ My parts are definitely not all ‘ A Man ’ — one ( Pierrot ) is a lead , the fisherman is a big part and so is the Russian ; the other ( the owl , not the grasshopper ) is not so good . ’ |
| 18 | I would n't have gone to meet him under any circumstances . |
| 19 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 20 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 21 | No one capable of creating kangaroos could have resisted hitting him in the face with a divine custard pie . |
| 22 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 23 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 24 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 25 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 26 | Having failed to mate him with Aloysia , she would try another of her daughters . |
| 27 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 28 | Otherwise one might not have minded asking him for a loan . |
| 29 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 30 | Feared as he was , the townsfolk had gathered to oppose him on several occasions , once when he affronted their God-fearing attitudes by ordering his men to rip the timber fan-faulting from the local church to use in the construction of Lambourn Palace . |