Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we know is that Nicola was due to meet him at nine o'clock and that he did n't turn up . |
| 2 | But no matter what path an observer followed , it would not be possible to provide him with stained-glass cinema . |
| 3 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 4 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 5 | This led him to numerous adventures in penetrating to Kabul and beyond , which have been described by Smith , Barber-Lomax , and especially Alder , who studied much of the terrain , in enthusiastic detail . |
| 6 | This led him in 1935 to discuss a newly ‘ discovered ’ agricultural Papuan tribe , the description of whose civilization Eliot utilized to criticize what he saw as some of the indulgences of his own inorganic civilization during the unemployment of the thirties . |
| 7 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 8 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 9 | Of the love , she knew he was growing tired but since her own ardour had considerably diminished after Pilade 's birth she was not disposed to criticise him for this . |
| 10 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 11 | This brought him to 45 . |
| 12 | One user commented that when the procedure for access keeps changing , this presents him with further problems . |
| 13 | Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man . |
| 14 | But the mention of a ‘ jubilant horn ’ in Jagdlied or ‘ jangling spurs ’ in Reiselied stirs him to immediate response , and in the dreamy melancholy of Schilflied or the elfin scherzo tinged with drama of Neue Liebe ( with which the disc artfully opens ) we can see the song writer he could have been had his general approach been different . |
| 15 | And this stood him in good stead when he moved to the Darlington area . |
| 16 | It is Jim 's book-nourished imagination , in fact , that betrays him into unheroic behaviour . |
| 17 | He continued firmly , and Faye relaxed a little , as if half daring to believe him at last . |
| 18 | He hit six sixes and seven fours in his hundred , then one more six to take him to 110 before he declared , and the scribes were simply stuck for superlatives to convey the majesty of it . |
| 19 | The strong simplicity of his ideas about life and the universe made it easy to link him with other men of understanding , so that for me the book seemed to be ringing with echoes of Hamlet and Richard Jefferies and the New Testament . |
| 20 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Thus lie has no right to re-sell the goods other than that allowed him by later subsections of section 48 . |
| 23 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |
| 24 | I 'm glad to meet him at last . ’ |
| 25 | Fullback Marty Roebuck could also miss out as an ankle operation is likely to sideline him for six to seven weeks . |
| 26 | His final round of 73 left him on 279 , five strokes behind the winner , Australian Peter Fowler , who shot 67 for a two-stroke triumph . |
| 27 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 28 | On Dec. 30 , after finding Collor guilty of corruption and official misconduct , it voted by 76 votes to three to ban him from public office for eight years , a penalty identical to that for impeachment . |
| 29 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 30 | Still , it is good to see him at all , and I suspect his performance in Reflected Glory will linger in the memory … |