Example sentences of "[verb] him [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 2 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 3 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 4 | ( 143 ) Something of this can be learned from " The Way to the Churchyard " ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . |
| 5 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 6 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 7 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 8 | The boy lives with his aunt but his mother , who is estranged from Luke 's father , often has him to stay for a couple of days . |
| 9 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 10 | She opened the door , and found him huddled in an overcoat , hands deep in pockets , a red scarf thrown carelessly around his neck . |
| 11 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 12 | Years later , in exile , his former tutor , Augustin Filon , found him leaning against a window of the house in Chislehurst and asked him what he was looking at . |
| 13 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 14 | She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot . |
| 15 | On the other hand the Police Inspector of the district found him standing with a bunch of yellow flowers in his hand . |
| 16 | He found him sitting on a bunk , holding a bottle of milk in one hand and cup of gin in the other . |
| 17 | It had earlier looked promising for White , as breaks of 73 , 64 , and 52 helped him cruise into a 4-2 lead . |
| 18 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 19 | John became a justice of the Common Bench in Easter term 1275 and the formal records of the court show him acting as a justice continuously down to the end of 1289 . |
| 20 | Old school photo graphs show him sitting like a wise and attentive owl , surrounded by his charges . |
| 21 | He sometimes borders on triteness , but more often his straightforward approach allows him to speak in an authentic language which is easily understood and brilliantly evocative . |
| 22 | Next morning the humour in this wore decidedly thin , as Marshall in particular sent down bouncer after bouncer , unchecked by umpire Constant and apparently unconcerned at the damage he might do — such as badly bruising Fowler 's arm and causing him to retire for a while . |
| 23 | Seeing only the spray of Petion 's blood , Ace fired again and again , the shots punching continually into Richmann 's body and causing him to jerk like a marionette before toppling backwards into the steel door . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I imagined him standing on a wee planet about the size of a football — ’ |
| 25 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 26 | if on the other hand he has have n't done your chores , on a Sunday , er , how do you expect him to live in a place like this . |
| 27 | They would n't expect him to go to a Job Centre and sign on . |
| 28 | ‘ What do you expect him to say with a fish-hook down his throat ? ’ |
| 29 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 30 | The Prince 's vanity had made him dress for a winter 's campaign on what threatened to be the summer 's hottest day yet . |