Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Worries streak towards him like enemy spaceships in one of Gary 's video games . |
| 2 | He then watched separatist parties advance on him from both eastern and western Canada . |
| 3 | He sees clearly how things stand , and the words come to him with which to describe them . |
| 4 | Friends and relatives speak of him in glowing terms . |
| 5 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 6 | Geoff Hurst 's maitre d ’ demeanour advertised that he was open for business — he 's the one who has been able to make his World Cup exploits play for him in recent years ; he 's semi-permanently on the road with an old-ones-are-the-best-ones floorshow and anecdotal package . |
| 7 | Bugs creep around him through the tendrils and quite near a thrush is singing . |
| 8 | Although it may have taken only an instant , the person to whom this sentence refers had to make the logical jump from what he could see of the possible escape routes open to him to the realization that flight was impossible . |
| 9 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 10 | The one thing Phil is still learning is how to cope when batsmen get after him on a good pitch . |
| 11 | The child who is encouraged to be a self-respecting individual , however , will carry that impression of himself forward into adulthood and will find that others respond to him as someone worthy of their respect . |
| 12 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 13 | His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender . |