Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 2 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 3 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 4 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 5 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 6 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 7 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 8 | For friendship 's sake , Maud tried to keep off political subjects and urged him to stick to his poems and visions . |
| 9 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 10 | Sit on our bloody backsides and wish him luck ? ’ |
| 11 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 12 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 13 | I rumpled his dark curly hair but gave him a firm ‘ No ’ when he asked , ‘ If I play radio louder , me get better more quickly ? ’ |
| 14 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |
| 15 | Dr. Jack Weir , moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland , met Roy Mason , the secretary of state for Northern Ireland , on 31st March and presented him with a memorandum drafted in judicious , forceful terms . |
| 16 | I shall have to leave the world of concrete numerable objects and follow him into a world of imagination where numbers themselves have discernible characteristics , or may hide , waiting to be discovered . |
| 17 | Josh Gifford wheeled Honey End round , took him back a few paces and put him at the fence a second time . |
| 18 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 19 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 20 | It was this condition that brought him close to his parishioners . |
| 21 | Hexham magistrates yesterday placed him on probation for 12 months and ordered him to pay £20 costs . |
| 22 | Judge William Hannah jailed him for 12 months and disqualified him from driving for six months . |
| 23 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 24 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 25 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 26 | So with this going on we found our company would get on better if I had collateral so I wrote to this boy and asked him for a million and put it in a trust fund that I would get after his death , and we that way so okay . |
| 27 | They found the 16-year-old boy and carried him safely to the surface at the Dan-yr-Ogof caves near Swansea . |
| 28 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 29 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 30 | Taking an iron-clad hero and facing him with some massive task will not produce that air of almost unbearable suspense you should be looking for . |