Example sentences of "be [verb] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEVE BACKLEY yesterday wrote off his chances of being fit to compete in this month 's European Cup and admitted that his continuing injury woes are causing him major concern . |
| 2 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 3 | So we 've taken him home and we 're giving him regular feeds . |
| 4 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Robson has a clot on the calf muscle and we are giving him some fitness routines in the gymnasium in the hope of clearing it , ’ said Mr Ferguson yesterday . |
| 6 | ‘ We are giving him another chance , but the pressure is now on him to show us what he is capable of , ’ said Laporte . |
| 7 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 8 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 9 | I thought she was going to be meeting him next weekend then ? |
| 10 | She saw him look down at her and saw that his skin was raw and flayed in places ; the arm of flesh and blood was scraped and scorched and the silver arm on the other side was reflecting the tremendous heat , so that it was copper coloured and glinting and must be causing him immense pain . |
| 11 | He went back to the cage and concentrated on Bobo , because she seemed to be giving him more attention and was sitting close up to the bars . |
| 12 | Well that 's silly comment ca n't be doing him any good ! |
| 13 | ‘ From the ecstatic behaviour I witnessed just now , I thought you must be promising him instant gratification at the very least , ’ Luke added with savage humour . |
| 14 | Having only recently arrived in the Province , this is the first ti me he has had to do them , and they are taking him some ti me . |
| 15 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 16 | Hua 's policy of the ‘ two whatevers ’ , i.e. to ( 1 ) resolutely uphold whatever decisions Mao had made and ( 2 ) carry out whatever the Chairman had instructed , were to cause him some difficulties in a changing political environment . |
| 17 | Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’ |
| 18 | Very deliberately , and as if it were giving him great pain , the German who had said little began to speak . |
| 19 | " Habib Olahi thought part of the blame lay with Iran 's allies — particulary the Americans and the British , who were giving him differing advice . |
| 20 | Was what you were telling him this morning , was it ? |
| 21 | Oh it were to tell him that dinner were ready and there 's this cheeky little mouse sat on top dinner , and he ai n't half eaten it |
| 22 | That he managed to summon enough energy to make any collections at all during his stay is something of a miracle ; had he been more thorough and punctilious in his methods he would have saved history , as well as himself , a lot of time and trouble when it came to corroborating the theories that were to bring him such fame , and infamy , many years later . |
| 23 | An addict only stops when he personally comes to the conclusion that his addiction is bringing him more trouble and suffering than pleasure . |
| 24 | He will take on a role as the head of a special unit in a hospital , and they will need to adopt the roles of experts whose help is needed in dealing with a particular patient whose case is causing him great concern . |
| 25 | No he 's on a round the world ticket , it 's cost him eleven pound . |
| 26 | 3.1 The only mechanism by which a court can seek to compensate a person who has suffered damage or loss in consequence of a wrong done to him is to award him monetary compensation , whatever the nature of the damage which he has in fact sustained . |
| 27 | Souness admitted : ‘ The temptation is to give him some sort of outing whether it 's half an hour or even a half . |
| 28 | All it 's done is to give him more money to gamble away up in London . |
| 29 | And what we 're trying to do is to give him this family feeling that everybody behind here , the whole team , every single worker is rooting for him and making sure that he has the best . |
| 30 | A fanaticism for Romeo Gigli suggests he 's going to carry on doing things right ; Browns thinks so too and this month the shop is giving him prestigious South Molton Street window space . |