Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The emphasis of the New Testament is that Christ resisted the temptations thrown at him and it was this that qualified him for dying on the cross . |
| 2 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 3 | He 'd always been so clean before , so we knew there was something wrong and took him to the vet immediately . ’ |
| 4 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 5 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 6 | If parents wished their son to become a Scribe they took him to Jerusalem at the age of thirteen and enrolled him in one of the Rabbinical schools . |
| 7 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 8 | Septimus Coffin , with a little bow of the head , retired and left him to it . |
| 9 | His eyes blackened angrily and Ruth supposed she had been right and exposed him for what he was — a cool bastard . |
| 10 | Pilger then got even more upset and accused him of wanting to produce the Daily Star . |
| 11 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 12 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 13 | ‘ The good men of the realm , great and small , rich and poor , by common assent ’ found him guilty and sentenced him to death . |
| 14 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 15 | The parson there , the chapel parson , he went there ; and it just lifted the roof off the chapel like that and killed him in the pulpit , blew in the wall . |
| 16 | The moulding was hard and marked him for life . |
| 17 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 18 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 19 | The young New Zealander never looked comfortable in a freshening breeze and slumped badly to an 80 that left him in danger of missing the match-play cut . |
| 20 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 21 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 22 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 23 | Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad . |
| 24 | Forsbrand came home in 30 for a 66 that put him on ten under par 134 but said : ‘ I 've never shot 29 for nine holes and I missed a four footer on the last . ’ |
| 25 | Unionists were therefore beside themselves with joy when the Canadian electorate removed Laurier from office in September 1911 and replaced him with a Conservative , Sir Robert Borden , who now repudiated reciprocity . |
| 26 | It was held that the employers were in breach of their personal duty of care , as they should have told the plaintiff to test the sashes to see if they were loose and provided him with wedges . |
| 27 | He returned to politics in the mid-1920s , backed Al Smith in 1928 and succeeded him as Governor of New York . |
| 28 | ‘ Michael went down to his room to sort it out , they argued , and Banville went berserk and pushed him off the balcony . |
| 29 | Whilst I was behind Desmond he was on two engines and landed heavily ; one of his engines came adrift and preceded him along the flarepath . |
| 30 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |