Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 2 | Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) . |
| 3 | As a succession of paycops , stewardesses , diplomatics , immigration officials , armourcabbies , narcotics relay expeditors , hotel functionaries , arms dealers and hookers told him to ‘ have a snazz day ’ and shoved his credit card through their machines , he wondered whether they would like the real 21st century when Nguyen Seth rained it down on them . |
| 4 | He almost bustled to the far table where glasses and decanters provided him with an interval of escape from the lonely speechlessness that only Aunt Tossie understood . |
| 5 | In preparation for the next elections , Williams persuaded a number of local politicians and businessmen to join him in running for office on the P.N.M. ticket . |
| 6 | Dire Straits and discos filled him with horror . |
| 7 | Their first soreness and troubles led him to Nairn . |
| 8 | Chekhov was Dad 's favourite all-time writer , and he always said Chekhov 's plays and stories reminded him of India . |
| 9 | By Thursday evening , errors and ommissions underwriters are due to remit £116 million to solicitor Richards Butler under the settlement reached last month between underwriter Richard Outhwaite and names suing him for negligence over £260 million of losses . |
| 10 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 11 | During his spin around Phoenix , the ambassador remarked that the climate and surroundings reminded him of home . |
| 12 | Bakatin also announced , in a sign of the changes , that he was overruling KGB objections and would allow Oleg Gordievsky 's wife and children to join him in London , where he had defected in 1985 [ see pp. 34004-05 ] . |
| 13 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 14 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 15 | Lord Morris said that a consideration of the facts and documents led him to the view that the solus agreement , the loan agreement and the mortgage could be linked together as an instance of one transaction and that the intention was that in providing that the mortgage should be irredeemable for the period of the tie it should become a support for the solus agreement . |
| 16 | This power can only belong to a person if others acknowledge him to be an expert . |
| 17 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 18 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |
| 19 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |
| 20 | He ex husband George Hailes pleaded not guilty to cruelty , but magistrates banned him from keeping a dog for 6 months and ordered him to contribute towards prosecution costs . |
| 21 | Champ had pined for his master since police took him from his old home . |
| 22 | One contemporary manuscript shows Henry II crowned by the hand of Christ , while angels invest him with sword and lance . |
| 23 | The verdict on whether Mr Lamont will remain as Chancellor remained open last night , with many Tories seeing it as an electoral mistake to raise fuel bills in the run up the next election , while others praised him for tackling the public deficit . |
| 24 | Some treat Jesus as the greatest medium who ever lived while others accept him as ‘ the psychic Son of God ’ . |
| 25 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |
| 26 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 27 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said Mr Holloway was able to pick out Eyles after police took him around the town to look for his assailant . |
| 28 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide hours before police stopped him for drink driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 29 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 30 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |