Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His description of how he watched helplessly as one of the deadly missiles thundered towards him makes chilling reading . |
| 2 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 3 | Ever since Ben Jonson people have thought of him piping native woodnotes wild and not being terribly educated . |
| 4 | He was standing close , holding her breathless with his gaze , every inch of him exuding male sexuality . |
| 5 | He was beside her on the bed , his robe , like before , hurriedly thrown on , every inch of him exuding male potency , large and strong and tanned and full of life . |
| 6 | Because , despite what had been said , she was still so very much aware of him sitting mere yards away . |
| 7 | ‘ Was n't it unwise of him to keep open house like that , with direct access to his office from a back lane ? ’ |
| 8 | Fellows like him unsettle other patients . |
| 9 | At least she would n't have far to go home if the evening turned into an unmitigated disaster , with him weeping drunken tears and slobbering all over her shoes while he told her the sad story of his life . |
| 10 | She bent with him to examine troubled roots , spotted leaves , patchy bark . |
| 11 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 12 | yeah he 's talked to me actually as well about dealing with people who from the inside have dealt working with him doing royal visits because obviously that 's quite useful a lesson for them to get over to people |
| 13 | The only time the mother spent with the boy was during meal-times and she had become so anxious about him eating sufficient quantities that she hovered over him and interfered with his eating pattern . |
| 14 | He moved through the crowd with that long , prowling stride , the aura of leashed danger about him causing other men to make way automatically . |
| 15 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 16 | In the backs , Kenny Logan has had a somewhat disappointing season after being capped in Australia last summer , but the stage is set for him to recover lost ground , as it is for his Stirling County colleague , Ian Jardine . |
| 17 | To one who had waited so long , this letter would scarcely have indicated that the time had come for him to take vigorous action on his own . |
| 18 | Sir Alf Ramsey was n't popular with many ( it is n't a manager 's job to be popular ) but every player who played for him had enormous respect and liking for him . |
| 19 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 20 | Even he had definite symptomatic and endoscopic benefit from additional radiotherapy and his general conditioned improved enough for him to undergo successful surgery . |
| 21 | It was n't easy for him to make new friends , particularly outside of whatever cast list he was currently a part , but occasionally it happened — as during the run of One Over The Eight . |
| 22 | The Minister of State is not yet the Foreign Secretary and there is little time left for him to become Foreign Secretary . |
| 23 | He saw himself as the political leader of the Evangelicals , but in reality his views were too extreme and his style too combative for him to command general support . |
| 24 | Crookes ' lectures were illustrated by brilliant and striking experiments , especially with the cathode rays , which he believed to be a stream of particles ; but his physics and mathematics were not sufficient for him to produce quantitative work in this field . |
| 25 | The judge was therefore at fault in considering that there was no need for him to pay explicit regard to the public interest in freedom of expression guaranteed by article 10 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ( 1953 ) ( Cmd. 8969 ) in seeking to resolve the uncertainty or ambiguity in the common law ; ( 7 ) in failing , as did Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case , to have proper regard to the public interest in freedom of expression and to the question of whether in a democratic society there really was a pressing social need to extend the ambit of the law of defamation to enable a governmental body to sue in respect of presumed ( and not actual ) injury to its governmental reputation ; ( 8 ) in failing to take into account the acceptance by the English courts of the fact that where a governmental plaintiff sought to invoke a private law right to interfere with freedom of discussion about the workings of government , the court 's approach would ( because of the competing public interests involved ) differ from that in a private dispute between citizen and citizen . |
| 26 | He feels the nomadic lifestyle contributed to a shyness which has made it difficult for him to establish close friendships ever since . |
| 27 | Mike spent more than 30 days waiting on one or other of the platforms , and it was not until the last day that the colobus monkeys came close enough for him to get good shots of them moving through the trees . |
| 28 | She 'll try the approach of oh well I 'm sure you meant well but it really was n't in Richard 's best interests for him to have overnight access and all this |
| 29 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 30 | But even where a man threatens to use no more force than is necessary for him to have sexual intercourse with a woman and the force needed , bearing in mind their relative sizes and strengths , would be minimal , it seems to be accepted that this would be rape . |