Example sentences of "[verb] him [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 2 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 3 | The essay , on ‘ The Dangers of Smoking ’ , had cost Hank a number of Sundays of hard work , and he estimated that he must have smoked at least eight packs of cigarettes while writing it , but to his astonishment it had won him a hundred dollars . |
| 4 | I would suggest she baths him every four weeks in Vitacoat Gold Seal and uses Velvet coat spray on his feathers and skirt every day . |
| 5 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 6 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 7 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 8 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 9 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 10 | When they saw Ruth , both men looked slightly abashed , like a pair of overgrown schoolboys , and Connor explained : ‘ This young man wants to learn the rudiments of sparring , so I said I 'd give him a few pointers . |
| 11 | This danger is well demonstrated by the early efforts made to help culturally disadvantaged children , many of which simply provided each child with a dose of relevant training during the pre-school period in the expectation that this on its own would give him the required extras for normal cognitive development . |
| 12 | I 'm c look let me just give him the two options . |
| 13 | The state of the microscopist 's art is now such that the choice of instrument to use depends largely on what he wants to see , and in some applications the acoustic microscope may give him the sharpest pictures ever . |
| 14 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 15 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 16 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 17 | Not only did David 's suggestion earn him a Winning Ideas Gold Award and the tidy sum of £1,000 but also a luxury trip to the Imola San Marino Grand Prix . |
| 18 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 19 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 21 | DeVore who had shown him the top-security files detailing the deals Klaus Ebert had struck with various Companies to destroy Curval 's own enterprise . |
| 22 | Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ? |
| 23 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 24 | She handed him the two parts of the torch and waited for him to piece the thing together . |
| 25 | Talbot handed him the two messages . |
| 26 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 27 | Archie joined him a few seconds later , closing the door behind him . |
| 28 | Inspector Montgomery asks if you would be kind enough to step into the library when you 've finished your coffee , and give him a few minutes of your time . ’ |
| 29 | Corsie , however , produced a perfect running bowl to take out Gourlay 's two nearest and give him the three shots he needed to take the set . |
| 30 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |