Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 2 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 3 | When , after his assaults on her , she begs to be allowed to leave , her instinctive feeling for him makes her provide him with some hope of her return , or at least of their future communication . |
| 4 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 5 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
| 6 | One could scarcely describe him as some kind of father-figure ! |
| 7 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 8 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 9 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 10 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 11 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | but I put him on some medicine I got from the chemist and it seems to have calmed it down but his nose is more er hot and cold |
| 14 | She always forgot , when she had not seen him for some time , how he affected her . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've not seen him for some time . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have n't seen him for some time . ’ |
| 17 | She had n't seen him for some years , of course , but she was sure that it was n't like him to be so edgy … so extraordinarily tense and restless . |
| 18 | I usually bump into him every so often on the stairs , in one of the upstairs rooms or in the garden , but I have not seen him in some time . |
| 19 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 20 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 21 | Of course , I did n't see him until some days afterwards , so I ca n't really — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 23 | There was scant eating in the meat , but it would sustain him for some days , assuming he could keep the scent away from wolves . |
| 24 | He had positioned himself in a narrow doorway , in the vain hope it would provide him with some shelter from the biting cold . |
| 25 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 26 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 27 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 28 | ‘ In my opinion , they 'll move him to some sort of safe house . |
| 29 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 30 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |