Example sentences of "[vb past] him [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 3 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 4 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The attorney agreed with Haydon about the injustice of the proceedings , and told him to return that evening to settle the matter finally . |
| 7 | 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 … ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 … ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The arrest of King had been videotaped by an amateur cameraman , and the resulting footage showed him receiving 56 baton blows and being brutally kicked by police . |
| 17 | I had on the programme Brahms 's Fourth Symphony and at the rehearsal Lamond said to me , ‘ You know , I knew Brahms ; I heard him conduct this piece . ’ |
| 18 | I heard him put more money into the box . |
| 19 | When he was shadow Secretary of State and I challenged him to have this debate in the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs , he said , " We soon will . " |
| 20 | After Christmas he had wanted to arrange for the marriage to take place straight away , before he could change his mind , but it was difficult to fit it in with his new duties as a Governor of the Foundling Hospital which required him to spend one day a week in town . |
| 21 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 22 | She watched him raise one hand to rub the nape of his neck , then flex his shoulder muscles . |
| 23 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 24 | Eva also insisted on Dad improving the service : she got him to consult esoteric library books early in the morning before work and asked him at breakfast , in a voice which must once have enquired of Charlie if he 'd done his technical-drawing homework , ‘ And what did you learn this morning ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ That was all rather spectacular , ’ he said , as we sat him up and got him to sip some rum . |
| 26 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 27 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 28 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 29 | Between 1916 and 1927 his quest for intellectual and emotional stability led him to examine another solution : bourgeois culture and bourgeois education . |
| 30 | Without naming his new guru , the Zimbabwe-born batsman — who has failed to live up to the blaze of publicity which greeted his arrival on the Test scene in 1991 — revealed that his poor form in five-day games against Pakistan last summer led him to seek psychiatric advice . |