Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 2 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 3 | ‘ The Bank may — ( a ) by notice in writing served on an authorised institution require it to produce , within such time and at such place as may be specified in the notice , such document or documents of such description as may be so specified ; ( b ) authorise an officer , servant or agent of the Bank , on producing evidence of his authority , to require any such institution to provide him forthwith with such information , or to produce to him forthwith such documents , as he may specify , being such information or documents as the Bank may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under this Act . |
| 4 | Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement . |
| 5 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |
| 6 | Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn . |
| 7 | The worrying thing for other World Cup teams next summer is that , if and when Maradona recovers his best form — and he will most likely do so in June — then the rest of the Argentina side looks ready to set him up for another stupendous tournament . |
| 8 | And , apparently , they 're going to set him up in some kind of arranged marriage . ’ |
| 9 | She had been asked to pick him up at eight thirty a.m. outside his billet at a nearby farmhouse and drive him to Bovington Camp in Dorset . |
| 10 | From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job . |
| 11 | He still used to entertain the others with stories of his days as a master criminal and boast that he had n't lost any of his skills , but it was difficult to imagine him back at that game . |
| 12 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 13 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |
| 14 | As one of them said , ‘ Because he was new we used to play him up at first , until we found out what he was really like . ’ |
| 15 | I ask you to deal him leniently in that because of that . |
| 16 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 17 | Say me a word , one enlightening word , to let him out of this cage . |
| 18 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 19 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 20 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 21 | In the first place , I 'm fond of your father and would genuinely like to keep him away from that fatal heart attack . |
| 22 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 23 | It 's not fair to keep him in like that . |
| 24 | Enough to keep him ketone-free with single-figure blood glucose levels most of the time , at as near ideal body weight as possible and avoiding hypoglycaemia . |
| 25 | Reilly is confident that rest will cure Jonathan Davies 's persistent groin problem but must be concerned about Lucas 's broken wrist which threatens to keep him out of next month 's Cup final . |
| 26 | He was hauled back to New York and given that column to keep him out of any more mischief . ’ |
| 27 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
| 28 | There was a pause , and the Oak seemed to study him afresh with solemn , scholarly eyes . |
| 29 | Louise had n't wanted to send him away at all . |
| 30 | His family , friends and colleagues were not to see him again for 19 months . |