Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 2 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 3 | Little wonder he saw some fresh sport in the pursuit of someone like Shannon , who was single-mindedly determined to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 4 | The DC nevertheless refused to confirm him as mayor , preferring a less charismatic politician , Domenico Lo Vasco . |
| 5 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 7 | She managed to get the services of a highly respected Birmingham solicitor , a Mr Warner , but the police still refused to let him near his client . |
| 8 | ‘ I have always tried to take him as a melancholy warning ’ ( wrote Tolkien in 1964 ) , so the danger was seen . |
| 9 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 10 | When Reza Shah crowned himself in 1926 , Muhammad Reza was appointed Crown Prince , or Valiahd , and everyone was thenceforth required to address him as " Your Highness " . |
| 11 | A daunting background for the growing boy even though his parents wisely sought to cushion him from the realities . |
| 12 | And gradually it came clear to him that every job the mate had given him had been carefully chosen to help him on his way to the bridge . |
| 13 | It was arranged that Mr Brown would go home by ambulance and transport was also ordered to bring him for his Outpatient appointment in four weeks time . |
| 14 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 15 | What influence I had with S.B. was now used to persuade him of the wisdom of this course . |
| 16 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 17 | The latter , a gentleman of cultural and literary tastes , is in the practice of providing tuition in various languages to those desirous of obtaining his services in that behalf , and tells us that Herr Hamnett , being a young gentleman of similar intellectual inclinations , had kindly offered to assist him in his labours … ’ |
| 18 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 19 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 20 | This time Holy Foley faces the John Upson-trained course and distance winner Some Obligation and will be hard pressed to overturn him in the Ludlow Hunters ' Chase today . |
| 21 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 22 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 23 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 24 | Both the Republic and Belgium had earlier refused to extradite him to Britain . |
| 25 | The christian name of ‘ Shallowe of Hollendon ’ , owner of a small property in Singleborough , Bucks. , is illegible , and since this is the sole reference to him one is almost tempted to dismiss him as a fictional character ! |
| 26 | Police have twice failed to present him in Lilongue 's High Court — the first time to the surprise even of the prosecution — and have defied an order for his wife and lawyer to have access . |
| 27 | You have n't yet agreed to endow him with all your worldly goods so that money is yours and yours alone . |
| 28 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 29 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 30 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |