Example sentences of "[verb] him [vb infin] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures .
2 Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him .
3 In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother .
4 There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered .
5 and I do n't know how he , you are , and in the end our cousins you , you know convince me that they 'd take sort of control , you know that , if I was worried as well about or dad getting drunk , one thing or another like , you know , and said look we 're going , it 's not as though we 're not going , we 're going and we 'll have him in with us and I let him go in the end cos I went down in the five weeks
6 He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there .
7 If you kick a child all his schooldays , force him to labour sixteen hours a day seven days a week , yank out his teeth with forceps when they ache , bleed him when he is ill , beat him throughout his apprenticeship , starve him when he falls on bad times , and finally let him die in the workhouse when he ages prematurely , then you have educated a man , in the best way possible , to be indifferent .
8 So the let him come in the day , two days he was off two months , Christmas time ,
9 Bondholder Erica Bachman told the court : ‘ Let him live in the same misery he brought upon his victims . ’
10 Then he says ‘ But he who tells of wars and heaven , under the sway of grown up Jupiter , of pious heroes and semi-divine leaders , who at one moment things of the holy assemblies of the gods on high and then of those deep kingdoms where a fierce dog barks , let him live in the frugal manner of Pythagoras and let herbs provide his harmless diet ’ .
11 She has to know how to deliver appropriate information to the patient , to overcome the neurological deficit which is the result of the brain damage , and to help him react in the way she wishes by producing carefully controlled movements .
12 In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’
13 Then there was another scuffle and I heard him go in a falling of bits of mud .
14 ‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice .
15 " Keep still , " Hazel heard him say in a quick , gulping voice .
16 He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak .
17 As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak .
18 ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed .
19 Of course , we 'll have to let him go in the morning . ’
20 Colt had his back to his watcher , but could hear him shiver in the draught .
21 Id like to see him continue in the side ( in any position ) .
22 The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side .
23 He spurred forward , sword raised , then a shout from his rear made him twist in the saddle .
24 She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair .
25 They had suddenly pulled up his breeches and made him stand in the corner .
26 Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in .
27 When they reached the Watermen , Mary and Ruth would n't let Ernest into the kitchen , but made him wait in the bar .
28 Make him disappear in a puff of smoke ? ’
29 ‘ I saw him play in the Schools Cup . ’
30 I think she 's going off it a bit so I said oh well I 'll come and have a chat and I said listen , I said , I realize you you 've got a lot of school work and that and you 've got your boyfriend , I said , but there is now way that you 're gon na let him stand in the field , getting fat and getting old you 've got
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