Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to his unfortunate son and daughter ( William Armstrong and Margo Gunn ) he seems to ‘ make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo ’ as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain . |
| 2 | Gave him a stiff sentence in a House of Correction to teach him better ways . |
| 3 | , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally |
| 4 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 5 | He studied medicine for two years but the sight of blood made him sick so , always a lover of shopping , he defected to the world of retail . |
| 6 | Benji is quite an old boy and needs plenty of work to get him supple . |
| 7 | His lack of possessiveness made him fearless . |
| 8 | Nails liked her company better than that of his father ; his new way of life gave him considerable satisfaction . |
| 9 | A modest and sincere man , his indefatigable hard work and innate sense of justice made him popular with his workforce . |
| 10 | ( Does the cup of coffee make him more , or less , mad ? ) |
| 11 | A man stood between these with the barrow behind him , and came down the almost precipitous slopes with the momentum of a quarter of a ton of stone lifting him off his feet for yards at a time , the exertions of keeping the load under control leaving him breathless and throbbing . |
| 12 | This was because Jakali 's husband 's ploughing bull had died and he 'd pleaded with Kalchu to lend him one of his . |
| 13 | Li Shai Tung drew closer , operating the remote from a distance of almost three hundred thousand li , adjusting the camera image with the most delicate of touches , the slight delay in response making him cautious . |
| 14 | At times rambling incoherently ( one observer in court thought him demented ) Mathews repeated all the lies he had told at the original trial and added several more . |
| 15 | He had to be bathed in wine and wrapped in cotton in order to keep him alive . |
| 16 | Specifically Alvarez was accused of having administered drugs to Camarena in order to keep him alive while he was being tortured by his drug cartel captors . |
| 17 | My guess is that someone substituted bodies in order to keep him happy . ’ |
| 18 | In fact , a similar vaunting of a purely restorative aim occurs within all interests theories , since the purported objective is to compensate a person for an invasion of his interests in order to make him whole . |
| 19 | A night without sleep found him red-eyed and haggard . |
| 20 | The claim that with his coming God was inaugurating his rule on earth laid him open to a charge of blasphemy , which was without difficulty transformed into a plea to the prefect Pontius Pilate that Jesus was instigating sedition . |
| 21 | We save our energies and wait for pneumonia to get him first , is that it ? ’ |