Example sentences of "[vb past] him [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 2 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 3 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 4 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 5 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 6 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 7 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 8 | She helped him lose two stones . |
| 9 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 10 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 11 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 12 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 13 | So I told him to take these tablets and says if he felt no better he 'd better get to doctors , well he did n't even move out of bed , apart from summat to eat |
| 14 | He broke two of my teeth extracting them but he says they 're out clean , when I told him to take another X-ray of it . |
| 15 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 16 | God has n't given Paul an injection of energy and told him to face all kinds of circumstances . |
| 17 | This caused him to invent Ambivalent Music , which you ca n't quite tell if you are listening to or not ( see Ambulance house music … ) |
| 18 | Luke sipped his juice : its extreme stringency caused him to lift both elbows and give a single , embittered nod . |
| 19 | The court appointed Robert Ramsay , a Western Australian accountant , as trustee , and directed him to recover any assets of the Bond estate . |
| 20 | The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours . |
| 21 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 22 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 23 | He therefore ruled that Reagan should testify , but rejected a request that he should appear in person , and instead allowed him to give videotaped evidence . |
| 24 | Neither the religious nor the sexual anxiety in Eliot 's poems came simply from his reading , but that reading allowed him to give supra-individual expression to his personal pain ; he clothed his own cry in the language and mythology of great traditions and their interpretations , making it ‘ impersonal ’ . |
| 25 | Then , influenced by his aunt Naomi Treen ( née Cubitt ) , a teacher at an elementary school practising Pestalozzian methods , he obtained in 1851 the post of master at Holy Trinity National School , Lambeth , where the progressive vicar , the Revd James Gillman , allowed him to pioneer revolutionary teaching methods in natural history and to set up a school museum . |
| 26 | Ms Leaming tells it all with vim , though the gossip turns her on far more than the movies : ‘ Aly practised an Eastern art of love known as Imsak , which allowed him to exercise indefinite control … ’ |
| 27 | Ben Jonson , a ‘ scholarship boy ’ whose ability with language allowed him to gain social advancement , is keen to distance himself from popular writing whose techniques he so skilfully employs . |
| 28 | This way of thinking allowed him to concede some shortcomings of moral insight in the Old Testament . |
| 29 | Almost the last of the gifted amateurs to hold their own among scientific professionals , his considerable intellect also allowed him to provide clear analysis of administrative problems , which he tackled in conciliatory style . |
| 30 | In one artist 's statement , he remarked : Whilst the Lefevre exhibition established him as urban romantic with a particular feeling for Thames-side subjects , a number of commissions followed which allowed him to develop this vein . |