Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 2 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 3 | And erm anyway we got more from the unemployment exchange that prepared to work for him for fourteen pound , when we could have a eighteen pound on the dole . |
| 4 | He brought me down here to work for him under false pretences . |
| 5 | But her vibrant , reasoned tone seemed to slip off him without any effect at all . |
| 6 | She wanted to struggle against him with all her might . |
| 7 | He asked us to call a group together , black and white , to meet with him for two days to seek God 's guidance together . |
| 8 | So we agreed to compromise with him on certain things , in return for him keeping his nose out of my business . ’ |
| 9 | You may like to write to him for more details . |
| 10 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 11 | When Hullmandel published his treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone in 1824 , the possibilities of lithography were better advertised ( although Hullmandel was careful not to describe the actual printing process , so that artists would have to come to him for that service ) , and Lear was one of the very first to be attracted to the technique . |
| 12 | Thus , like Julian , the Prophet Muhammad said that his revelations seemed to come to him in two ways : some were clear and others were obscure and very difficult to understand . |
| 13 | Talking to Gavin Selerie in 1983 McGrath detailed some of the influences that came to work on him at that time . |
| 14 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 15 | I did not then have a chance actually to converse with him until that second evening after the return of his illness . |
| 16 | She would give anything to be able to talk with him in private , but he deliberately chose a time when both of them were a home . |
| 17 | It was difficult to talk to him with this going on . |
| 18 | And when one of them did choose her , she found herself quite unable to talk to him at all . |
| 19 | I saw him a lot at the Ehukai Beach Park where he was based , but only managed to talk to him at any length at a party in the hills . |
| 20 | There was always that about Mario , that if he had n't been one hell of a racing driver , you still would have wanted to talk to him ; and that , although he was one hell of a racing driver , you still preferred to talk to him about other matters . |
| 21 | erm , I have n't , I was gon na go and , I tried phoning Lorne one time I was going through to Glasgow just to see if I could , can I have a , can I have a pint with him or something , erm , just to chew it over cos he suggested you know he 'd made various helpful suggestions , in the meantime I did n't manage to meet him , but in the meantime I did manage to speak to my father-in-law who has a camcorder and er he will be more than happy to erm , he 's also got editing equipment , he would be more than happy you know , to do the home made video that we 've talked about , I need to talk to him about this because the obvious place to do will be the Lyceum on one of your shows |
| 22 | His father said not to talk to him like that , so Tom walked out and went to live with his grandmother in Rickmansworth . |
| 23 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 24 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 25 | Has to walk after him with little trowel and paper bag . |
| 26 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 27 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 28 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 29 | He knows that many of those now present will be eager to go with him on this adventure , but first of all he would like to present them with a challenge . |
| 30 | His most interesting essays during this period are , in fact , on specific poets , and are quite unencumbered by the theoretical baggage which he felt compelled to carry with him on other occasions ; as a result , they show his criticism at its best — witty , cogent , perceptive . |