Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want him to have the best possible educational start , and they see children elsewhere , like Emma , getting a whole year 's schooling more than Sam . |
| 2 | Mr Brandreth said : ‘ Mr Hanley only arrived at his desk this week , but I have asked to see him as a matter of urgency because I want him to reconsider the whole question of the location of the Army 's pay and personnel centre . |
| 3 | We 'll need him to get the neural network back on line . ’ |
| 4 | Secondly , I urge him to make the best possible speed in this matter because for many of us it represents the most dreadful stain on our criminal justice system . |
| 5 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 6 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 7 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 8 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 9 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 10 | Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain . |
| 11 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 12 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 13 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 14 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
| 15 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 16 | Mark Roe explains the swing change that helped him win the recent Lancome Trophy . |
| 17 | From his first appearance as the languid young aristo to his final entrance as a surgical case in a wheelchair , Rupert Everett makes the character as much Harlequin as Mephistopheles , and the magnetic allure with which he endows him balances the brittle cynicism and affectation of a man who measures every word for effect . |
| 18 | Louise tried to soothe him and persuade him to drink the antiseptic draught which McNab had given her . |
| 19 | Challenge him to check the full-blown consequences of his ideas to see where they lead . |
| 20 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 21 | Mr Byron Butler , 52 , the chairman , told him to make the necessary adjustments out of court before proceeding with sentencing in a drink-drive case . |
| 22 | venerable old Jew whose noble nature and gratitude to Fledgeby for releasing him from debts owed to Fledgeby 's father cause him to serve the young man devotedly as agent for Pubsey & Co . |
| 23 | He seemed to hesitate , his face partly shadowed as the moon slid silently behind a cloud , leaving the boat in darkness , yet Fran could sense him studying the bruised swell of her lips , the faint tremble coursing through her body . |
| 24 | Meredith swallowed miserably , imagining him comforting the beautiful girl . |
| 25 | Do n't expect him to do the same . |
| 26 | It is not unknown for a salesman to describe the product in glowing terms and you would expect him to highlight the best features . |
| 27 | What was worse , wearing it had obliged him to fasten the top button of his shirt , an exercise which had drawn his attention to an extra half inch of fat his neck had gained since the last such occasion . |
| 28 | If Jones has outlived Smith this can not be explained by showing that he earlier had the higher life expectancy , and then arguing that this duly caused him to live the longer life . |
| 29 | He wondered afterwards whether his unlooked-for success in the examination caused him to read the wrong subject at the university . |
| 30 | he also opened up early at the wicket and had a tendency to bowl from the edge of the crease , which caused him to get the right shoulder in front of the left as he delivered and , with hardly any follow through , the only way he could generate any great speed was by a late acceleration of the bowling arm . |