Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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1 | Maltote slumped down on the stool , his long sword catching him between the legs and nearly tipping him over on his face . |
2 | But the almost mesmeric brilliance of Severiano Ballesteros first of all broke down what had appeared to be insurmountable barriers and then allowed him to charge through the gaps , devastating anything in his path . |
3 | And all she could think of , as she rose to her feet and politely accompanied him to the front door , was that , suddenly , she did not want him to leave . |
4 | Corbett stared around whilst the Lady Prioress was speaking and noticed how troubled Dame Frances looked , but then the Lady Prioress snapped her fingers and impetuously summoned him forward . |
5 | And so , through playing his stuff so many times , hearing him play it on record and on bootlegs and actually hearing him sing live — once — it 's got to the point where it 's hard to say whether this is my natural voice or if it 's something I learned . |
6 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
7 | He had been discovered by the abbess 's steward , Richard of Bernstead , who , when he resisted attachment , seized and bound him , took him to Barking , imprisoned him for three days and afterwards delivered him to the forester and the verderer . |
8 | The fact that Nikon overreached himself was clearly exposed when Tsar Alexis forced him to withdraw from public affairs and subsequently had him deposed and replaced by a more pliant successor . |
9 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
10 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
11 | On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices . |
12 | their general practitioner agreed both to discontinue prescribing Charles ' barbiturates and not to give him any further medication . |
13 | You must deploy Mr Bargepole equipped with a pair of electrodes and a can of Aqua Regia in the MD 's office of United Newspapers and not let him at it until he has secured your reprieve . |
14 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
15 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
16 | Nicholas appointed him to the State Council and the Committee of Ministers and then made him chairman , in 1842 , of the committee which supervised the construction of the railway between St Petersburg and Moscow . |
17 | Charles would capture one of the boys and only release him if he said the magic word . |
18 | The applicant sought judicial review of the decison of the Director of the Serious Fraud Office on 26 June 1991 , in the course of criminal proceedings against the applicant , to seek to enforce his compliance with the requirement contained in a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 to attend at her offices and answer questions or otherwise furnish information in respect of her investigation of the applicant alone , afer she had caused him to be interviewed under caution on three occasions and thereafter charged him with an offence , at a time when and in circumstances whereby ( a ) the applicant 's application for legal aid had not yet been granted and he had neither legal advice nor legal representation available to him ; ( b ) the Director had stated that she would not cause the applicant to be further cautioned in compliance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 of the current Codes of Practice issued pursuant to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 . |
19 | This allows him to cast his spells and also gives him incredible strength . |