Example sentences of "[verb] him in [det] way " in BNC.
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1 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
2 | She wanted to kiss him , to soften him , to diminish him in some way so that she felt safer , more human . |
3 | All personnel , military and civil , without distinction of rank will assist him in any way he sees fit . |
4 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
5 | I do n't see him in that way at all . ’ |
6 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
7 | yeah she never does sport , she always get out of it , I ca n't see that that affects him in any way but apparently she always makes up excuses and stuff , and then that night at supper , he 's sitting there , you know , all |
8 | He had been trained to recognise anybody who had served under him , or who had helped him in any way . |
9 | From now on , she would touch him in any way she pleased , even when neither of them was feeling sexy , because she would still be feeling loving — for as long as the affair lasted . |
10 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
11 | But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way . |
12 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
13 | Whereas Charles Dance did not resemble him in any way . |
14 | If he does , you will not , I repeat not , contact him in any way . |
15 | She did n't want to think about Timothy Gedge , to dwell on him or to consider him in any way whatsoever . |
16 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
17 | Yes , I can influence him in any way that I please . |
18 | To see him in this way has made it possible — has made it logical and rational — to set fire to the night skies of Iraq . |
19 | I may have been being a bit selfish , but I could n't bear to lose him in that way , and he seemed to be making such an effort himself , not ever putting weight on that leg and eating as much as he could . |
20 | She had n't coerced him in any way . |
21 | She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek . |
22 | If a horse is being naughty then you have to punish him in some way — but do n't punish him if he does n't understand or is physically incapable of doing what you 've asked . ’ |
23 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
24 | I wondered if I had offended him in some way . |
25 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
26 | Harry denied in his letters that this fact was influencing him in any way . |
27 | Perhaps there were good reasons for trying to outwit him in this way ? |
28 | I 've seen the man 's face actually resting on the foot of the horse ; but never at any time the horse stand on him , tramp on him or damage him in any way . |
29 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
30 | ‘ Mr Potter , I 've upset him in some way . |