Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreigners tend to see him as a ‘ whingeing pom , brit etc. ’ and do not like the program . |
| 2 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 3 | Trade supremo Michael Heseltine , whose supporters want to see him in Mr Lamont 's job , was even more lavish in his praise . |
| 4 | Lord Dundas was fully aware of Glassford 's importance to his political interest in Clackmannan , and had taken steps to try to oblige him in a matter relating to his West Indian business interests , but Glassford was also conscious of his position in the political sphere , and fully intended to use it to secure his brother-in-law 's reinstatement . |
| 5 | BARNET chairman Stan Flashman has vowed he will ban any fans caught criticising him on the terraces . |
| 6 | It is said that a deputation of quarrymen came to see him with a view to getting a trade union recognised . |
| 7 | After Hocazade 's appointment to the kazaskerlik some years later , his father and brothers came to visit him in Edirne . |
| 8 | His office says he has kept at least 20 top-flight journalists and analysts cooling their heels waiting to interview him since October . |
| 9 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 10 | The expert is not precluded from taking this role unless the parties agree to prohibit him from doing so . |
| 11 | In a daring helicopter operation supporters had freed him from the prison on Naos Island , off Panama City , on Dec. 4 . |
| 12 | This sentiment was confirmed by Saints ' boss Ian Branfoot who admitted that the attacking Town tactics had taken him by surprise . |
| 13 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 14 | Once again the solicitor representing them said that there was not and that his clients had put him in difficulties , as he had only been given instructions a week before . |
| 15 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 16 | Thames Water Utilities wanted to put him on light duties . |
| 17 | He does not , however , have to pursue his own investigations if the parties have provided him with sufficient evidence : 14.8 . |
| 18 | His gallic flair has illuminated Old Trafford and the United supporters have taken him to their hearts — they have even invented ( in their usual witty and original way ) a song which goes ‘ Ooh Aah Cantona , Ooh Aah cantona ’ . |
| 19 | The tunes played by the 25-year-old former London College of Music student have become a feature at the club this season and the Crewe directors intend to reward him with a free season ticket . |
| 20 | Mr Craxi , who had been unchallenged party leader for 16 years , four of them as prime minister , resigned on Thursday as judges moved to prosecute him in connection with a corruption scandal . |
| 21 | When Cathy got pregnant at fourteen by the lodger who until recently had lived in her family 's home , her parents decided to take him to court . |
| 22 | In addition no child would be admitted at 11 unless his parents undertook to keep him at school until 18 ( though presumably the schools would have the right to throw out children who proved unsuitable , or who did not do enough work ) . |
| 23 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 24 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 25 | His parents had named him after Franklin D. Roosevelt and he had carefully built up a similar outwardly benevolent image . |
| 26 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 27 | His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine . |
| 28 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 29 | He first acquired a great deal of Gilbert and Sullivan , because his father was keen on the Savoy operas , but eventually John turned to ballet music because of the tales his parents had told him about the Diaghilev Ballet . |
| 30 | They were all thin people — there 'd almost have been room for a fourth person in the double his parents had bought him as a wedding present , so getting three people in it was certainly not an impossibility . |