Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all . |
| 2 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 3 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 4 | Surely no one would need to consult him at this hour ? |
| 5 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 6 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 7 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 8 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 9 | If the person indicates that he has nothing more to say the officer shall without delay cease to question him about that offence . … |
| 10 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 11 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 12 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 13 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 14 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 15 | That the German audience is not deaf to beauty of tone production as some have been so foolish to pretend , is shown by the enormous enthusiasm with which Battistini is greeted when he sings in Germany , to say nothing of Caruso , although one hesitates to mention him in such proximity to so transcendent an artist as Battistini . ’ |
| 16 | For he knew what Susan had done to present him with this daughter , his beautiful Kate , born just 12 years ago , six months after Simon had left their village . |
| 17 | The figure of Moses , the key figure for Freud in Judaism , seemed to preoccupy him in these last years of his life , and it is only understandable that people see Freud as still wrestling with his own father in this intellectual activity . |
| 18 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 19 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We would also like to thank him for all the hard work he put into Lee Green . |
| 22 | but you 've got to curb him of that , I said make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny ? |
| 23 | And we 've got to include him in some crime as soon as we can . |
| 24 | I did n't like to see him like this so when the second man had gone I turned to Dad . |
| 25 | An obstacle to Buchan 's transfer was that he would lose income from his Sunderland shop , and the deal was delayed for two months while ‘ under-the-counter ’ terms were agreed to compensate him for this loss . |
| 26 | Not going to tackle him about this business of Dora 's golf-club , are you ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 28 | That was not going to help him at all , even if it made Humber happier . |
| 29 | You have n't yet agreed to endow him with all your worldly goods so that money is yours and yours alone . |
| 30 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |