Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew very little about him after all , had no idea what he did when he went to Dublin , or Kildare . |
| 2 | It was strange for him at first but he soon came to enjoy it and did his best to improve the sporting standards and attitudes . |
| 3 | A friend fashioned this for him at negligible cost . |
| 4 | Your veterinary surgeon will put your mind at rest if you ware worried , but invariably a spooky horse has nothing wrong with him at all ! |
| 5 | But you — you are not interested in him in that way ? ’ |
| 6 | … he might be young , lonely and not a little bewildered , but the way was clear before him at last ; he had taken his orders and been given the pass word , he could win through . |
| 7 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 8 | Then at Angers he did homage to his father , swearing on the Gospels that he would be faithful to him against all men . |
| 9 | " … I would think it a sufficient detriment to the confider that information given in confidence is to be disclosed to persons whom he would prefer not to know of it , even though the disclosure would not be harmful to him in any positive way . " |
| 10 | ‘ But we saw little of him in 1948 . |
| 11 | It was too much for him after all that business at the stocking factory . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He was always nice — there was nothing untoward about him in any way , ’ says David Sim . |
| 13 | Instead of hell , God might consign the impenitent or spiritually immature or those ignorant of him to another round of earthly life . |
| 14 | 4.2.2 invite the parties to subject to him within such time limits as he may direct such written representations concerning the matter or matters in dispute as they may respectively wish |
| 15 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |
| 16 | There was nothing very remarkable about him in this respect . |
| 17 | Morse inhaled deeply upon yet another cigarette , half closed his eyes , shook his head , and relapsed into the silence that was customary for him on any journey . |
| 18 | ‘ They have been extremely patient with him for several years and have taken this step after careful consideration of the limited options available to them . ’ |
| 19 | It 's simply that he wants to create a better atmosphere , and show that after all he 's a reasonable man , and we should n't be too hard on him in these days . |
| 20 | And do not be rude to him in any way . |
| 21 | His skin was so close that she barely had to move to touch him , taste him — to know all of him with all of her . |
| 22 | It seems thought will be given to playing Tony Stanger in the centre to provide a bit more physique in defence and on that theme Michael Dods could be destined to be left out , not because he has played badly , but rather as a reflection that the powerhouse physiques are prone to get the better of him in escaping tackles . |
| 23 | This means that if we transfer it all to him in complete genuineness , he is then responsible for it . |
| 24 | Sir Arthur married a Florence Long in 1882 , a marriage that was useful to him in social circles as his brother-in-law was a powerful Member of Parliament , but Sir Arthur 's true love was reserved for British deaf people . |
| 25 | Section 34 of the EPA requires a broker in waste or any person producing , importing , carrying , keeping , treating or disposing of waste ( other than a householder ) to ‘ take all such measures applicable to him in that capacity as are reasonable in the circumstances ’ to : |
| 26 | His second wife Fluria , the widow of Sampson of Northampton , was married to him by 1267 . |
| 27 | The territory was not densely settled and while emigrants to America might be loyal subjects of Charles II , in Virginia , or might be deeply distrustful of him on religious grounds , as in New England , they were not certainly united with one another . |
| 28 | His piece The ‘ Magic ’ Boots made me smile in reminiscence , since I was one of those with him on that occasion — the weekend in Langdale when Brasher Boots were launched on an unsuspecting world . |
| 29 | It was the first time she had been alone with him since last night and the thought of it made her fluttery inside . |
| 30 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |