Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 6 | His General Practitioner was notified by telephone of his impending discharge and promised to visit him within a couple of days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She walked two paces backwards to the bed , only in her shirt , and tried to pull him on her as she fell . |
| 11 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Dalgliesh got out of the Jaguar and tried to extricate him from the pushchair , but the anatomy of the chair momentarily defeated him . |
| 14 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 15 | 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 ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |
| 19 | They valued his vigour and inventiveness and came to respect him as a reliable man of business . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Immigration officials detained him at Heathrow Airport and threatened to return him to Sweden . |
| 23 | They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire . |
| 24 | She insisted that hospitalization was necessary and threatened to commit him to a private mental hospital unless the university hospital took him as an in-patient . |
| 25 | She looked around her despairingly and began to push him towards the pantry . |
| 26 | He emerged then and she dropped her hand self-consciously , straightened her dress and tried to rearrange her expression into one of indifferent professionalism as an attractive blonde girl draped herself decorously around his neck and began to kiss him with quite unnecessary passion . |
| 27 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 28 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |
| 29 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 30 | 12.40 : Saw Deputy Head re incident and arranged to see him with Class Teacher in his office when I have completed my dinner duty . |