Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his Hebrew schooling thereby climaxed ; his public participation galvanising him to accelerated study . |
| 2 | ‘ Just keeping him in good condition for you , darling . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The Secretary of State , in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 21(1) , ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) of the Oil and Gas ( Enterprise ) Act 1982 , and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf , hereby makes the following Order : ’ |
| 4 | And I did n't begin distrusting him until this trip . ’ |
| 5 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 6 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 7 | Then Edgar appears , disguised as a poor knight whose ‘ name is lost ; /By treason 's tooth bare-gnawn , and canker-bit ’ ( 121f. ) , and by defeating him in single combat , completes the exposure of Edmund , the bastard being displayed as a hypocrite and pretender ( 162–74 ) , who in a fair contest — according to Renaissance optimism about the superiority of right — is bound to be defeated by the legitimate . |
| 8 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 9 | ‘ Get out of the way , ’ snapped Rohmer , pushing him to one side as he moved towards Pearce . |
| 10 | Judge Paul Clark read social inquiry reports on Marron , before sentencing him to 2 life jail terms . |
| 11 | Close your eyes and you just ca n't help imagining him in Dirty Dancing . |
| 12 | Both had been pardoned by Menem in October 1989 [ see pp. 36972-73 ] and subsequently cashiered , but Seineldin had been re-arrested and sentenced on Oct. 22 to 60 days ' military detention in San Martín de los Andes , 1,500 km from Buenos Aires , for bypassing the Army chain of command and writing directly to Menem warning him of growing discontent within the Army [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 13 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 14 | It was in meeting him on this ground that the British came closest to responding to him as a worthy adversary . |
| 15 | Even so , the image of Chung Hu-yan waking him with awful news persisted , until he realised what it was . |
| 16 | For several days , maybe up to a week before that , whatever I was doing it was leading him to that decision . |
| 17 | For , whatever else , she would not marry Havvie Blaine now , and she would lose no time in informing him of that fact . |
| 18 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 19 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |
| 20 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 21 | Now it becomes urgent to decide , but frivolous or weighty considerations keep pulling him in one direction or the other . |
| 22 | And the former head of the Hitler Youth , Baldur von Schirach , who retained even at Nuremberg a naïve attachment to Hitler , indicated in his memoirs the effect on Hitler himself of the constant toadying and sycophancy which surrounded him , shielding him from rational criticism or genuine debate , and bolstering his increasing detachment from reality . |
| 23 | With some wild , unplanned , unfocused idea of shaming him with feminine helplessness , she stayed mute as he drew her into his arms , and remained passive as he gathered her up to him . |
| 24 | His ability to face anything was severely tested by Mr Multhrop , who clutched him firmly by his lapels as he entered the door , as if holding him under close arrest , an impression strengthened by the sight of a uniformed policeman standing behind him . |
| 25 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 26 | ( a ) Children in need Section 20(1) requires every local authority : to provide accommodation for any child in need within their area who appears to them to require accommodation as a result of : ( a ) there being no person who has parental responsibility for him ; ( b ) his being lost or having been abandoned ; or ( c ) the person who has been caring for him being prevented ( whether or not permanently , and for whatever reason ) from providing him with suitable accommodation or care . |
| 27 | Though living with his father in Dearborn , near Detroit , Kalid visited his mother and grandfather in the Bekaa Valley several times a year , a family duty providing him with perfect cover for the job of courier in the DEA 's stepped-up programme of controlled heroin deliveries . |
| 28 | He played seven events and earned £8,600 , in prize-money , at least providing him with enough money to live on . |
| 29 | Bassett said : ‘ It 's my fault for messing him about , switching him from one flank to the other then playing him through the middle . |
| 30 | He has been friendly with Holy Trinity 's vicar since teaching him at theological college in Durham . |