Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 2 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 3 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 4 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 5 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 6 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 7 | Serbian opponents accuse him of blackmail and extortion . |
| 8 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 9 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 10 | The work was interesting and the pay was excellent , but an offer from one of his old lecturers tempted him to Bristol . |
| 11 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 12 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 13 | The ball soars and ploughs into some branches showers him with twigs and leaves . |
| 14 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 16 | Only a few steps brought him to within feet of her . |
| 17 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 18 | None of the French journalists embarrassed him by pointing out that this first ‘ petit saison ’ of the Opera — and even the next season — fall far short of the target for the Opera de la Bastille , which is 250 performances a year . |
| 19 | Her next whimpered , broken words cut him to the heart . |
| 20 | Further honours awaited him at Bologna , where he applied for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica . |
| 21 | Most diverting is Artegall 's encounter with the Amazon Radigund whose sexual allurements cause him to be captured and emasculated by being dressed in woman 's clothes and forced to spin . |
| 22 | After teaching himself to juggle , the 27-year-old is now advertising for fellow Big Top devotees to join him in starting up a little troupe . |
| 23 | Naturally , in view of the political interest of Lord Milton and the Duke of Argyll , John Main was not left to languish in the state of promoted unemployment to which Colonel Haldane 's enmity had consigned him , but although they were able to secure a port appointment for Main which brought him a regular salary , it was at Bo'ness , on the Lothian shore of the river Forth and directly under they eye of Haldane 's ally , Collector Middleton , who sent the unfortunate Main ‘ on every drudgery piece of business to different places to put him to all the expence & trouble the Collector can devise ’ . |
| 24 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 25 | Mr Catrain was 21 when German troops captured him in June 1940 . |
| 26 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 27 | The Headmaster himself was an aloof and somewhat austere figure in public , betraying his emotions only twice — when he announced , on the afternoon of 11th November 1918 to the assembled school , the signing of the Armistice , and when some sixth-formers presented him with a gift to mark his marriage . |
| 28 | So social scientists interpreted him as a cultural determinist ? |
| 29 | Cecil has not won the 2,000 Guineas since Wollow scored in 1976 , but Pursuit of Love is a genuine contender and it will take a convincing performance from either Forest Tiger or Dr Devious in today 's Craven Stakes to displace him at the head of Ladbrokes ' market — and other firms could well follow suit . |
| 30 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |