Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What , no congaie , no mu tsai ? " asked Joseph precociously , straining to bridge the gap of those few years that seemed to separate him from the world of adult banter inhabited so effortlessly by Paul and his brother . |
| 2 | Syncretistic vision represents the salient visible details , the hero 's Brylcreemed hair and pocketful of peanuts , rather than seeking to explain him in terms of his social and intellectual background . |
| 3 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 4 | The storms that threatened to pluck him from the summit where he stood barely rippled the grey waters of the lakes that were strung like pearls along the centre of the grassland far below . |
| 5 | But the Senior Management Team saw him as a somewhat shy and introverted person and sought to persuade him to be more outward-looking and to be the teacher in the Art department to liaise with the Needlecraft department , a development which they were keen to see . |
| 6 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 7 | If you 're having trouble with your wrestler , and want to change him during play in the survivor series , the secret is to press Select once the bout has begun . |
| 8 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ He holds out his hands for him and loves to have him on his knee . |
| 10 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 11 | Here the reader has once again been won back onto Pip 's side after his care of Magwitch which seems especially significant as upon hearing that he was his true benefactor he loathes the man and tried to distance him from him , physically and socially . |
| 12 | He was quite aware of her marital designs on him , but she was very much part of the life which he had rejected , even if she refused to recognise that fact , and tried to reclaim him for it . |
| 13 | And so that Ven should know how truly sorry she was , she held on to him with both arms and tried to pull him to her . |
| 14 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 15 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 16 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 17 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 18 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 19 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 20 | If she 's particularly fond of someone who has Alzheimer 's and wants to help him by producing a foetus , who has the right to say no ? |
| 21 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 22 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 23 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |
| 24 | However much the family sat and planned and prepared to scold him after a frightening bender , he would soon have them all melted with his gypsy stories . |
| 25 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 26 | He noted ‘ the disintegrating effect of Lloyd George on all with whom he had to deal ’ and came to regard him as ‘ a real corrupter of public life ’ . |
| 27 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 28 | James Shaw , 33 , unemployed , of Nelson Drive , Littleham , Exmouth , denies conspiring to murder Mr Brown between June 1 and September 14 last year and attempting to murder him between August 13 and 16 . |
| 29 | Harris , of Shieldhall Road , West Drumoyne , Glasgow , had been found guilty of assaulting Mr Brown and attempting to murder him on 18 February last year in Shieldhall Road . |
| 30 | Anthony McDonald , 29 , of Deanston Road , Shawlands , Glasgow , admitted wearing a mask and presenting an axe at an employee of the Bank of Scotland , Kilmarnock Road , Glasgow , and attempting to rob him on 20 January . |