Example sentences of "[verb] him [subord] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to find him before the Lebanese authorities do . |
| 2 | You would have thought that the natural reaction of the teacher would have been that we ought to contact the father — better him than the nutty grandmother . |
| 3 | The new WBC champion said he ranked Bowe among the best heavyweight fighters today , but was ‘ confident ’ he would beat him if the two met . |
| 4 | It would have helped him if the two most awkward customers in the political equation — Sinn Fein and the DUP — had been given a drubbing by the SDLP and the Ulster Unionists respectively . |
| 5 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 6 | I asked him if the fundamental problem is that those who have are too selfish to help . |
| 7 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 8 | To get him though the difficult months ahead , Mr Kaifu has insisted on retaining Taro Nakayama as foreign minister and Ryutaro Hashimoto as finance minister . |
| 9 | In this case it may be by asking the child to pick up a toy , being ignored , then compelling him or her to pick it up by physical guidance then putting the child out of the room and leaving him when the inevitable tantrum occurs . |
| 10 | I recognized him when the two of you came to my window . |
| 11 | She raised her arm and flung it hard at him , not caring where it hit him , wanting only to hurt him as the whole world had hurt her ; wanting to see his cold , impassive face break with ordinary human emotion . |
| 12 | She nudged him as the sleek dark head of a seal bobbed up scant yards from where they were . |