Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take this one , for example ; walking along the canal towpath at this late hour of the night , as if it was the park on a pleasant Sunday afternoon and life held no dangers for him at all . |
| 2 | This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it . |
| 3 | She hurled the words at him with such violence that she paused in order to catch her breath . |
| 4 | In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender … |
| 5 | He knew the Professor had arranged matters for him in this way , and was grateful . |
| 6 | Do you know , in the first World War , when he was Commander-in-Chief , they put up wooden statues of him in all the towns and you could pay and hammer a nail in it ! |
| 7 | Buy the number you can afford , but I believe that anyone working seriously needs to have some thirty purse nets with him during each day 's work . |
| 8 | POP superstar Michael Jackson flew out of Singapore today bound for Taipei , airport officials said , as new attacks against him over alleged child abuse were made in the United States . |
| 9 | For as if the attacks on him from Labour and Liberal Democrats were not enough . |
| 10 | Ms Starnes , who had once worked for him in the news department of WSGN Radio in Birmingham , Alabama , agreed at once that he should cover pending events in Libya for Mutual Radio and promised to get the necessary credentials to him within 48 hours . |
| 11 | The game could be lost inside five minutes with him like this . |
| 12 | which drew heavily not only on Sharp 's papers but accounts and memories of him by fellow abolitionists . |
| 13 | She measures out her guarded replies to him in neat , carefully checked words , as once she had suggested , from the top of the steps outside their front door , that Millie might like to invite me in for a few minutes . |
| 14 | The first lady nodded and went on nodding for several seconds in quiet contemplation before putting two further questions to him concerning European regional incentives , Government grants and subsidies and their cost distorting influence on investment location decisions . |
| 15 | And yet he said , when I expressed my feelings to him in public ( I am not ashamed of love — why should I be ? |
| 16 | Hotspur watched the marred profile beside him curiously as they paced side by side , for he was greatly drawn to his prisoner , and could not reconcile the many stories concerning him with this man he had begun to know . |
| 17 | On the right , his father was not many yards behind him in that charge . |
| 18 | Pipe decorative scales over him in different colours , or paint their edges with gold and silver food colouring . |
| 19 | Richard was the kind of man who has two clean handkerchiefs on him at half past three in the morning . |
| 20 | Gaullist deputy Georges Tranchant , his former business partner , withdrew the charges against him in early November , and the case was dismissed in late December . |
| 21 | But I was in two minds about him for another reason : he was already too old for training purposes , and of course that was why I wanted a bird . |
| 22 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 23 | Esau may be rich and powerful ( he has four hundred men with him after all ) , and undoubtedly he means just what he says . |
| 24 | I disagreed with much of what he had to say , but I welcome him to the House from this Bench and look forward to debating these issues with him on many occasions . |
| 25 | When Rob broke a leg she was able to make up a lot of lost ground and was selected to the British Team two seasons before him in 1981 . |
| 26 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 27 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 28 | ‘ Royal Gait ran with the injury in the Champion Hurdle and we did n't want to take any chances with him after that , ’ said Fanshawe . |
| 29 | Waksman records that the great American pharmaceutical firm of Merck established a fellowship in his department in 1938 for the study of industrial fermentation processes , and made grants to him from 1939 onwards for research into antibiotics . |
| 30 | That has provoked more paperwork , or at least strongly supportive letters to him from complete strangers in higher education , schools and the health service . |