Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IGNORED our plea for him to address the ‘ Southgate Semiotics Society ’ — a body ‘ concerned with discussing the most poignant examples of what we believe to be ironic , individualist/regionalist and deconstructionist English . ’ |
| 2 | As he was the only able-bodied man on the farm , it was a constant struggle for him to make the mortgage payments . |
| 3 | My mother and I helped push him up the ladder into the attic ( not easy — he was no lightweight ) , and then passed up the bucket for him to quench the flames . |
| 4 | The not-so-dour Scot knows it will be a unique experience for him to take the visitor 's dressing room at the citadel where his deeds as player and manager became legend — as did his departure . |
| 5 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 6 | One side of him found the inspector attractive and amusing . |
| 7 | Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder . |
| 8 | It is a disappointment to him to see the way canoeing is marketed and perceived , particularly the view that people ca n't be coached after a certain level . |
| 9 | Despite the horrors he 'd seen , and the fierceness of his revulsion , some small part of him retained the fascination that had drawn him , Godolphin and their fellow experimenters together in the first place . |
| 10 | Not that you suspect him because you do n't like the look of him walking the streets — he 's got to be a suspected person . |
| 11 | Officials refused to discuss his itinerary and , most unusually for such a senior member of the Royal Family , it was indicated that there was no plan for him to meet the public . |
| 12 | There was no question of him hearing the noise in the stillness of the waxworks . |
| 13 | Well it 's just a question of him arranging the transport to get rid of it . |
| 14 | From inside the hut behind him came the sudden sound of gongs and drums being beaten and immediately a bare-breasted woman appeared in the doorway at the top of the stepped log , holding aloft a tall earthenware jar . |
| 15 | His behaviour in his marriage was driven by the child in him seeking the truth , and his need to have his perceptions validated . |
| 16 | Was it not a benefit to him to have the crew sail the ship home rather than abandon him and it in a foreign port ? |
| 17 | There was no need for him to use the overdraft . |
| 18 | No need for him to see the balance sheet . ’ |
| 19 | She wanted to make Reflections in a Golden Eye with him playing the latent homosexual army officer , and Taylor as his wife . |
| 20 | In May papal backing was given to her conditions for return ; two legates brought letters urging the younger Despenser to assist the reconciliation of the king and queen , virtually a request for him to abandon the court , but they got no further than Dover where the king interviewed them and threatened them with death if they dared to publish the pope 's letters . |
| 21 | It must have been a million-to-one chance for him to hit the car right in the middle . ’ |
| 22 | He 'll be putting the disappointment of this years boat race behind him to lead the challenge next year . |
| 23 | The TBM 700 's purchase price includes two type ratings , and the usual practice is for the owner-pilot to bring a professional flier with him to take the course . |
| 24 | Chief Inspector Salter was anxious to see him and she had made an appointment for him to see the Chief Superintendent later that day . |
| 25 | A new offer for him to challenge the world heavyweight champion , American Ruddick Bowe , is reportedly being thrashed out . |
| 26 | Anderson himself , in scene five , remarks on the fact that language allows him to 'show off a bit " ( p. 63 ) but this comment occurs in the context of his longest turn , which is the most obvious example of him violating the maxim of manner . |
| 27 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 28 | On scheduled passages , of course , you ca n't always do this , but Mr. Andrew and his father before him knew the trade so well that they generally managed it . |
| 29 | Chuck Moxon drove , his colleague beside him operated the direction-finder ( D/F ) receiver , a small box like a miniature television , save that on the screen in place of a picture was a single glowing dot . |
| 30 | It would have been no trouble to him to write the exchange in modern English : ‘ It 's always like that with the things men start off on … |