Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 2 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 3 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 4 | It had been impossible to thwart him under the glare of media attention back at the restaurant , and she was still trying to decide how to deal with the situation if he wanted to come in with her when they reached her apartment — and she knew he would want to . |
| 5 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 6 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 7 | I had in mind Vladimir Nabokov , if you 're willing to consider him as an American writer , John Barth , Richard Brortigan , Robert Coover. erm As I say they 're all writers who might come under the heading of , of postmodern meta-fiction writers who do not take for granted that fiction has a , a direct and clearly understandable relationship with society so that it can erm give you a very clear picture of society at a given moment , which was generally the case in the , with British fiction in the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 9 | " We 're lucky to have him with us . |
| 10 | He 's only groggy , not out , but you 're able to secure him to the bed with the other set of handcuffs and the leather straps from the same drawer the hood came from . |
| 11 | The FA are appalled by Jones ' contribution and are likely to charge him with misconduct . |
| 12 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 13 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 14 | But if you see the top man around the business you are able to look him in the eye and tell whether you can trust him or not . |
| 15 | She wished that she had been able to spot him in the crowd . |
| 16 | He is a very nice horse but we have not been able to test him in Dubai , ’ said Conway . |
| 17 | So with Amyas 's long , damp fingers pressed against her eyes , Jennifer was led stumbling into the passage , and on the way up to the house Sir Gregory tried to think how he was going to pacify his wife , who had never been able to forgive him for his infidelity and who had always resented the presence of his bastard 's daughter under her roof when she came to hear Mass . |
| 18 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 19 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 20 | England captains must not do things like that , but they had not been able to sack him at the time because of the provocation he had been under ; now that he had stepped out of line again he gave them a heaven-sent opportunity to administer the axe . |
| 21 | So far , we 've been able to keep him in check . |
| 22 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 23 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 24 | Even granting the absurdity of Hitler 's racialist theories , it would be possible to credit him with realistic goals ( to exploit a political scapegoat , to depopulate Eastern Europe for resettlement ) for which he could massacre Jews and Slavs in as full awareness as theirs when they flee or fight . |
| 25 | Nor would it be possible to refer him to any works of literature ( before the present one ) from which he could gain enlightenment . |
| 26 | It might even be possible to scare him into silence , although when he was brought to Owen 's office in the early hours of the morning that did not seem very likely . |
| 27 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 28 | But no matter what path an observer followed , it would not be possible to provide him with stained-glass cinema . |
| 29 | If he put up a scheme , you would be willing to follow him to the ends of the earth to ensure its fulfilment . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm gonny stick him for thon Seturday . ’ |