Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor has forbidden him to put any weight on it . ’ |
| 2 | Sadly he rejected this dual instruction and was lost on a low-level marking attack that , had Cochrane been aware that Gibson was not checked out at Warboys , his AOC would have forbidden him to fly that night . |
| 3 | His mother , he knew , would never have expected him to walk those yards alone had she known that he suffered such atavistic panic , but she had n't known and he would have died before telling her . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd have expected him to have more sense , ’ said young Jonna tersely . |
| 5 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 6 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 7 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 8 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 9 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 10 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 11 | I catch a piercing look I 've seen him give other guys ; Gregory , when he would n't jump a six-foot gap on the fourteenth storey ; Nick , when we learned about his drinking . |
| 12 | Apart from scoring in both legs against Leeds , the striker 's rich vein of form this season has seen him net 32 goals in 26 appearances . |
| 13 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 14 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 15 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 16 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 17 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 18 | The psychiatrist has told him to take three pints of lager . |
| 19 | Now the freehold 's been sold to a Salisbury firm called Sarum Heritage Limited , and the new landlord 's told him to pay 1500 pounds by the end of this month or risk losing his home . |
| 20 | His mother must have had him watched last night ; perhaps he was still being followed . |
| 21 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 22 | Kapuscinski exercises a personal charm which must have helped him to establish friendly relations with the people he met , and to gather material , and which can seem to befriend the Western reader . |
| 23 | He says the expert tuition has enabled him to reach new notes — and opened up a whole new repertoire . |
| 24 | He ca n't see any harm in it but when I 've found him watching blue movies , I 've felt suicidal . |
| 25 | On her return , she 'd found him entertaining several field officers from the nearby KOSB battalion . |
| 26 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 27 | This had entailed him working long hours . |
| 28 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 29 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 30 | Where had she heard him say these things ? |