Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket . |
| 2 | Yet , it was asked , was it possible to exclude him by treaty , so manifestly an arrangement between the king of England and the Burgundians ( the dauphin 's political rivals ) , and then imposed upon a sick king who was in no position to resist ? |
| 3 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 4 | This pits him against dance , ragga , and hip hop beats . |
| 5 | This caught him off balance . |
| 6 | His style of writing caused some to accuse him of rationalism . |
| 7 | She fell back on to the bed , half dragging him on top of her , and feigned girlish shyness . |
| 8 | And this sent him into sudden-death against Anders Forsbrand where Jamie again produced the magic wand , and downed a 20-foot birdie putt for victory . |
| 9 | This brought him into conflict with a pagan critic , and the exchange of argument can be deduced from the defence ( Apologia ) for Christianity which Justin composed and which he later supplemented with a further appendix . |
| 10 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 11 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 12 | This brought him within reach of the ceiling . |
| 13 | And Couples is already planning a supersonic surge in 1993 to lift him alongside world No 1 Faldo . |
| 14 | This puts him on course for his first pole in Adelaide since 1986 , his first win in Australia , a record 10th victory of the season and the 31st of his 12-year career . |
| 15 | The plight of Ian X , a 23-year-old Ayrshire man who has a mental age of six , surfaced when he appeared in court after getting into trouble for the first time with the police , and was sent to Barlinnie in the absence of any hospital or social work establishment willing to take him into care . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm gonny stick him for thon Seturday . ’ |
| 17 | The French recognized him as heir to their throne by a treaty of May 1420 , on the understanding that he would marry the French King 's daughter , Catherine . |
| 18 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 19 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 20 | It being impossible to hit him with Marguerite looking on , Jenna slid into the passenger seat and kept silent . |
| 21 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 22 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 23 | His appointment to the staff of the Borodin mission to the Kuomintang in 1924 brought him into contact with hundreds of young Vietnamese for whom Canton was the centre of Chinese nationalism ; and communism which , at this time , was still included in the Kuomintang . |
| 24 | A break of 83 put him in front for the first time adding a 70 clearance in the sixth after Wattana led 58-0 . |
| 25 | His 25 League goals in 1960–61 put him as runner-up to Johnny Byrne in that promotion season and he remains only behind Byrne 's figure of 30 for the highest number of strikes in a post-war League season of up to 46 games . |
| 26 | For years she has been complaining ‘ I never see anything of you , darling ’ and ‘ Why ca n't you spend a little more time with the family ? ’ — so naturally he expects her to be delighted to have him at home . |
| 27 | Still more Italianate are the three Livres de chansons ( 1576–8 ) of-Antoine de Bertrand ( d. c. 1581 ) , whose harmonic daring carried him beyond chromaticism to consider the ad libitum use of microtones . |
| 28 | And there was nothing in his present circumstances likely to ensnare him in sensuality . |
| 29 | People likely to provide him with ammunition for his little campaigns would n't appreciate an audience any more than they 'd want to be seen tripping up the steps of the council offices to some bloody committee room . ’ |
| 30 | When , for example , Alexander Gordon of Strathdon came to Elgin on 5 November 1539 to bind himself in manrent to George earl of Huntly , promising to serve him in peace and war , give him counsel , and protect him against harm , he was only one of many hundreds of men throughout the country during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries making such an obligation , and thereby creating strong personal relationships based always in theory and normally in reality not just on mutual self-interest but on mutual loyalty and trust . |