Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to worry him in his last moments , so I did not tell him that Linton was also dying . |
| 2 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to thank him for his patience , foresight , and ability to interpret my ideas , incorporate his own with them , and achieve what you see here tonight . |
| 4 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 5 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 6 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 7 | I bent down and turned him until I had my hands under his arms , his back towards me , and I floated him along in the water to the steps and there strained to pull him up them and out onto the grass . |
| 8 | He did not know , indeed , which hurt him the most — the memory of the bright young girl she had been , or the knowledge that now , having sold herself to a rich old man , she had come , once that man had died , to try to buy him for herself . |
| 9 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 10 | If you want to challenge him about anything you had better have your facts right . |
| 11 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |
| 12 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 13 | Daemons tried to turn him from his path . |
| 14 | Who were you in your arrogance to try to save him from his wish ? |
| 15 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 16 | St Chad 's College in Durham , which was then a theological college , tried to get him as its Principal . |
| 17 | Limeking went down as if shot , and his rider Pat Buckley desperately tried to get him to his feet as the horse , flanks heaving , lay in a mess of thorn and fir and mud . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ He holds out his hands for him and loves to have him on his knee . |
| 19 | You may turn into one of those driving , ambitious wives who are not glad of their husband 's contentment but want to change him into something he is not . |
| 20 | Melody tried to raise him to his feet yet again , but Seb pushed her off . |
| 21 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 22 | Thankfully , he found St Erconwald 's fairly deserted except for Watkin to whom he gave strict instructions about the custody of the church , and Ranulf the rat-catcher who had come to remind him of his promise that if a Guild of Rat-Catchers were founded , St Erconwald 's could be their chantry church . |
| 23 | When Ludens tried to ask him about his ‘ thoughts ’ , he replied that he had ‘ difficulties ’ which they might discuss ‘ later on ’ . |
| 24 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 25 | Now , he stood up and began to pace purposefully round the room , making Ari 's head whirl as she tried to follow him with her eyes . |
| 26 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 27 | She tried to tell him with her eyes as he advanced , hands balled into fists , but he did n't understand . |
| 28 | On Jan. 13 Azerbaijani anger boiled over into an anti-Armenian pogrom in Baku , when some 70,000 people at a rally in the city centre were told that an Armenian resident of the city had attacked two Azerbaijanis with an axe , killing one of them , when they came to evict him from his flat . |
| 29 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |
| 30 | ‘ Charm , ’ had said the tolerant , smiling on the young Fergus , prepared to accept him for what he was , but , ‘ Arrogant , ’ said the older , more cynical courtiers . |