Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 2 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 3 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 4 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 5 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 6 | He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop . |
| 7 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 8 | He did n't half go into him with his stick . |
| 9 | The girl turned her head and half smiled at him behind her glasses . |
| 10 | He worked his passage home as a steward and fetched up at Tilbury with £30 wages , which was soon augmented by £46 10s left to him in his absence by his grandfather . |
| 11 | She wanted so much to remain with him on the terms which had always existed between them , did not want the wealth and consequence of her real life to come between them before it needed to . |
| 12 | It is impossible to sleep with him in the room . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't have much to do with him after that . ’ |
| 14 | At the beginning she had known clearly enough that he was an irrevocably solitary man , and it had seemed to her fortunate to live with him at all . |
| 15 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 16 | Then he found a book for her , one of a dozen given to him by George Singleton from a clear-out of Victorian titles . |
| 17 | This special tribute in WWF News attempts , however inadequately , to give WWF supporters and staff a picture of what Peter 's many qualities and leadership skills meant to some of those who have been privileged to work with him in a great adventure . |
| 18 | The Supreme Court in Vienna on March 2 , 1989 , rejected an appeal by the former Vice-Chancellor and general manager of the Creditanstalt-Bankverein , Hannes Androsch , against the fine imposed on him in March 1988 for perjury in giving false testimony to a corruption investigation [ see p. 35792 ] . |
| 19 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 20 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 21 | Rees-Mogg went about his business conscientiously and with a good degree of enthusiasm , and while it is hard to think of him as a representative of the common man , sheer assiduousness probably bridged the gulf between the housing estates of suburbia and the Old Rectory , Hinton Blewitt . |
| 22 | Hard to think of him as a boy . |
| 23 | She travels widely , but is always glad to return to him as her ‘ anchor ’ . |
| 24 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 25 | They were all waiting for him at home now , he knew , in the olive grove , where the snails would be out crawling in the rain . |
| 26 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 27 | They all turned against him in the end did n't they ? |
| 28 | They all returned from him to you , |
| 29 | They were all staring at him in speculative silence when the sound of a car 's engine circled the house , coming to rest in the arc of gravel before the door . |
| 30 | Many remonstrated with him for a howling storm was raging outside , it was night and the journey was a dangerous one . |