Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that pleasure was tinged with sadness because his mother , Joanna , is n't alive to see him in a role he might have been born to play . |
| 2 | And anyway , if somebody is too forthright and says what he really thinks you might feel impelled to hit him with a brick . |
| 3 | Bob Calder , that ass , was more than willing to accept him as a man who knew all there was to know about women . |
| 4 | Signor Valenti was willing to accept him as a son-in-law . |
| 5 | I do n't really understand what he 's doing , but it 's OK to watch him for a bit . |
| 6 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 7 | One said it was pointless to put him on a waiting list , but letters from a grain merchant 's and from Littlewood 's Pools promised to file his application and interview him when he returned home . |
| 8 | The matter in question may be so complex and technical , the conflict so acute , and the customer 's understanding and experience so limited , that , however full any disclosure made to him , it is impossible to place him in a position where he has sufficient comprehension of the issues and consequences of consenting to enable him to give binding consent . |
| 9 | Handling it in this way is likely to leave him with a sense of confusion and resentment . |
| 10 | Mr. Newman also sought to invoke section 11(3) of the Act of 1989 , which confers upon the High Court jurisdiction to order a person 's discharge if , having regard to certain matters specified in the subsection , it would be unjust or oppressive to return him to a foreign state . |
| 11 | She was too honest to deceive him and too prudent to exchange him for a lover whose interest would probably not last very long . |
| 12 | After six competitive games it became clear to me that the standard of football required in the Multivite/Singletons League Division Three was way beyond his ability and so , sadly , I felt the club was no longer able to accommodate him as a player . |
| 13 | But , far from being able to greet him like a young girl when he came , she 'd have a job to hide how decrepit she was . |
| 14 | Also their directors wont really be able to sack him for a few years . |
| 15 | Well , he , it 's not that far away and it 's , if he 's in here and they can see to him , fair enough , or they might be able to point him in a different direction , a better direction |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Police surgeons have looked at him and said it 's safe to detain him in a police cell . ’ |
| 17 | On those occasions when June was unable to accompany him to a meeting or activity , David would always ensure that she and Judith were alright and never failed to keep in touch . |
| 18 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 19 | If the hon. Member for Leicester , South ( Mr. Marshall ) would like to accompany me in the new year , I should be only too happy to take him on a tour and show him just how much is happening outside Belfast as well as in it . |
| 20 | And the second thing she understood was the reason why she was indeed so desperate to keep him at a distance . |
| 21 | With deep blue eyes and springy fair hair , the athletic Dane would be the answer to many a maiden 's prayer , yet while Ashley was grateful to have him as a friend and business associate she had no inclination for their relationship to deepen . |
| 22 | She expects her son-in-law to be just the same kind of husband and father , with all the same values and priorities , and finds it difficult to accept him as a man with a different set of strengths and weaknesses , however happy he makes her daughter , and this may need to be pointed out to her . |
| 23 | It 's difficult to imagine him as a Plantagenet — rather like Edward the Second . |
| 24 | Ianthe did not think of asking John to accompany her , because it was difficult to imagine him in a church . |
| 25 | It was n't fair to leave him in a fool 's paradise , and for her own peace of mind she wanted to have everything settled . |
| 26 | Although he was a leading member of the Danzig Party it would probably be fair to describe him as a misguided liberal who only realised his mistaken alliance when he saw the brownshirts pulling on their kicking boots . |
| 27 | When Donald examined his wire in the last stages of the illness it might be necessary to lead him to a medical textbook and steer those calm , grey eyes in the direction of the chapter headed ‘ The Guillain-Barré Syndrome ’ . |
| 28 | Neither scholar had , strictly , gone through the stages necessary to qualify him for a mevleviyet , but the former was closely connected with the Grand Vezir Rustem Pasa , the latter with Sehzade Selim , later Sultan Selim 11 . |
| 29 | William Pickett , the senior partner , retired from business in February 1786 , and Philip Rundell , by then in sole control , invited Bridge in December 1787 to join him in a partnership ; thereafter the firm continued as Rundell & Bridge . |
| 30 | The sculptor Antenor ( above , pp. 30 , 52 ) names his father Eumares ; and it is tempting to identify him with a painter of Athens , Eumaros , known to Pliny , whose pupil Kimon of Kleonai is credited with innovations like those seen in the works of the Pioneers . |