Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike Power and Clive Thornton pointed him in the right direction and sent him in like a terrier down a rabbit hole . |
| 2 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 3 | The Johnson group seized the wounded Doe and took him away , while the ECOWAS force looked on , apparently helpless . |
| 4 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 5 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 6 | For friendship 's sake , Maud tried to keep off political subjects and urged him to stick to his poems and visions . |
| 7 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 8 | Sit on our bloody backsides and wish him luck ? ’ |
| 9 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 10 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 11 | I rumpled his dark curly hair but gave him a firm ‘ No ’ when he asked , ‘ If I play radio louder , me get better more quickly ? ’ |
| 12 | I shall have to leave the world of concrete numerable objects and follow him into a world of imagination where numbers themselves have discernible characteristics , or may hide , waiting to be discovered . |
| 13 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 14 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 15 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 16 | They found the 16-year-old boy and carried him safely to the surface at the Dan-yr-Ogof caves near Swansea . |
| 17 | Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called . |
| 18 | Taking an iron-clad hero and facing him with some massive task will not produce that air of almost unbearable suspense you should be looking for . |
| 19 | He gave support to William Wallace in his fight for Scottish independence but deserted him and aligned himself with the English King Edward I who was trying to dominate Scotland . |
| 20 | Fellow worker Hazel Goff , who has St John 's Ambulance training , then administered first aid , cutting away Mr Chittenden 's burnt clothing and sponging him with water . |
| 21 | She wrote to the Director of Social Work and accused him of lying . |
| 22 | Driving back to Aubagne , Alex told me how the rest of them had spent the day throwing grapes at the old German and accusing him of being in the SS . |
| 23 | Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept . |
| 24 | They advised him that the Spanish government had evidence of Italian and German intervention and urged him to supervise the non-intervention agreement more effectively . |
| 25 | Gatsby seems alive like the glittering social circle that surrounds him , whereas Clegg is , emotionally , as dead as his butterfly collection . |
| 26 | I looked through the window of the back room and saw him [ Stompie ] lying there . |
| 27 | He complained and when the defendants were made aware of his complaint they made sure he received 20 free films and reimbursed him his postage and packing . |
| 28 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 29 | It might seem a bit bleak , a bit inhuman ( ‘ antihumanist , yes ; inhuman , no , ’ she would interject ) , somewhat deterministic ( ‘ not at all ; the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him . |
| 30 | Throughout his country he is known as the ‘ Professor with the smile ’ , and when he returns to his village in central Vietnam , children follow him like the Pied Piper and call him ‘ Uncle Vo ’ . |