Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 2 | If Mr. Goldsmith would care to accept the invitation — clearly written in the bottom left-hand corner of our charts — to contact us , I would gladly explain to him in detail how we tackle the very complex task of chart production , and in particular how we go to the most extraordinary lengths to try to meet the highest standards of clarity and accuracy demanded by the wide range of our customers — when flying in UK ( not USA ) airspace . |
| 3 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 4 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 5 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 6 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 7 | Rachel could only glare at him in silent hatred , not trusting herself to speak . |
| 8 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 9 | The charters S 951 and 953 are gifts in Cornwall purportedly made by him in 1018 , although neither is of certain authenticity , and this was seemingly also the date of his lost foundation charter for Buckfast Abbey in Devon . |
| 10 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 11 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 12 | Then she added : ‘ He definitely shapes up better looking at him like a Bill Clinton character . |
| 13 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 14 | Hayling was also in charge of media initiatives , so Lowe naturally turned to him with the newspaper they had so often discussed as comrades in Big Flame . |
| 15 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 16 | In 1326 he advised the king against an attempt to divorce his wife and was especially commended by him to Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | Edward , on the other hand , had always been accorded a mysterious potency : ‘ They do so depend on him at Croxford . ’ |
| 18 | Her fingertips had only fluttered around him in butterfly ecstasy . |
| 19 | Grandson was with Edward I during his visit to France and Aquitaine in 1286–9 , and was constantly employed by him in business at the courts of France and Aragon during those years . |
| 20 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 21 | His voice was so dead , so cold , so indifferent to her that she could only stare at him with a block like concrete lodged somewhere near her heart . |
| 22 | Her whole world felt as though it had just been rocked on its axis by the announcement , so that for long silent seconds she could only stare at him with pain in her eyes . |
| 23 | But the others could only stare at him in speechless amazement . |
| 24 | And so , to the dhobis astonishment and terror , the Collector had suddenly materialized beside him at the water-trough . |
| 25 | An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be . |
| 26 | She now grinned at him as she pushed him , only to cry at him under her breath as he lifted the teapot , ‘ Leave it ! |
| 27 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 28 | So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes . |
| 29 | Trevelyan at the Treasury insisted that every scheme should be properly surveyed and costed , and be personally authorized by him in London , before work began . |
| 30 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |