Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 2 | Always the perfect aide , Serrigny tried to distract him with Rabelaisian reminiscences from army life of twenty years ago . |
| 3 | She tried to imagine him with blue eyes , or brown — or even grey , like her own ; but she could n't . |
| 4 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 5 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 6 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 7 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 8 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 9 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 10 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 11 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 12 | The figure of Moses , the key figure for Freud in Judaism , seemed to preoccupy him in these last years of his life , and it is only understandable that people see Freud as still wrestling with his own father in this intellectual activity . |
| 13 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 14 | She turned to watch him leave , experiencing a second shock as she recognised the man who was driving the car that arrived to collect him as one of the pair who had waylaid her in the car park . |
| 15 | They guaranteed to indemnify him against any financial loss . |
| 16 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 17 | And she really began to hate him with such little strength as she had left . |
| 18 | But then the electors of Leyton decided to reject him amid tearful scenes , strangling his political career . |
| 19 | Proud dad Mick , 33 , of Rochester , Kent , dashed to enrol him in Third Division Gillingham 's supporters club . |
| 20 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 21 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 22 | A reptile of a money-lender from Poland Street offered to accommodate him at 40 per cent , '20 less than any other of the trade . ’ |
| 23 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 24 | Carrington managed to get him to one side long enough to ask him what the airman had said . |
| 25 | His employers offered to pay him in full until the 12-month period expired and the High Court granted them an injunction , preventing Mr Henderson from leaving prematurely . |
| 26 | She ached to remind him of all the wasted evenings with prospective investors : the long , boring meals with pompous bankers and their dull , provincial wives . |
| 27 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 28 | BORIS Yeltsin , the Russian President , suffered two serious blows last night when the country 's highest parliament voted to strip him of direct control of the government by July , and Ukraine made clear it would not ratify a landmark arms treaty between the United States and the former Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Nigel 's wife often appeared to haunt him after that . |
| 30 | Wright , who lent him money that he never repaid , continued to consult him on technical matters after he left Derby ; Burdett in turn seems to have procured purchasers for some of Wright 's pictures , including Washington Shirley , fifth Earl Ferrers [ q.v. ] , and Catherine the Great . |