Example sentences of "[vb infin] him [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall even consider him in whatever new role he has at the time . |
| 2 | Maybe I could introduce him to my sceptical American editor friend ? |
| 3 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 4 | We could n't even bury him from our own home . |
| 5 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 6 | Good afternoon , Celtic say that Lou Macari is expected in Scotland tomorrow to finalise the deal that will confirm him as their new manager . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd better see him on my own . ’ |
| 8 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 9 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 10 | It could yet follow him into his political career . |
| 11 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 12 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 13 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 14 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 15 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 16 | But Fogerty 's Hollywood dreams will not deter him from his other ambitions — such as becoming a League international just like his dad Terry . |
| 17 | His penetration was n't deep enough for her to really grip him with her vaginal muscles , but he had seen how clitoral massage aroused her . |
| 18 | The prosecution will take him through it all a thousand times , but they 've got sod-all evidence , and they know it . |
| 19 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 20 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 21 | ‘ To man I can be answerable , and as for God , I 'll take him in my own hands ’ , said the brazen Clavers , and with that he turned his horse and led his men away , knowing that he had been deflated by a poor woman of noble demeanour . |
| 22 | He 's in all the typical things a young man who 's too quick does , that 's fly off the road all the time , but that 's part of the normal learning curve , and I think that he 'll be trouble for every team that does n't have him in their actual car at the time . |
| 23 | Greg did not enlighten him about his real origins . |
| 24 | He also commissions M. Bijou de Millecolonnes , who despises the ancients , and whose ‘ lightness , gaiety , and originality ’ are the antipodes of the ‘ solidity , solemnity and correctness ’ of Sir Carte Blanche , to build in a ‘ wild sequestered spot ’ in Regent 's Park a pavilion reminiscent of Nash 's at Brighton , which gives rise to a rumour ‘ that the Zoological Society intended to keep a Bengal tiger au naturel , and that they were contriving a residence which would amply compensate him for his native jungle ’ . |
| 25 | He thought he would come to no harm both because people needed his services as a medical man and because he thought they would regard him as nothing more than a political eccentric . |
| 26 | Only she could protect him from its hungry clutches . |
| 27 | However , when a one-time tenant called to say his possessions had been seized to pay his debts , Sheridan gave him the £300 which the man said would restore him to his former state . |
| 28 | She would tell him in her own tune . |
| 29 | ‘ That is what he wanted us all to think , including the Men , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we should honour him for his cunning and intelligence . |
| 30 | She had laid him in Dot 's arms and let her hold him on her own . |