Example sentences of "him [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
2 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
3 | She was too full of misery to finish and she brushed past him to go to the stairs , not able to face this at all . |
4 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
5 | This does at least make him think of the kinds of life to be found in the sea . |
6 | But it is better to let him mingle among the guests and take the candid shots which add to the colour and fun of the day . |
7 | Mcduff came with him to sit in the shelves and they took it in turns to keep watch . |
8 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
9 | Mr Woolmer said : ‘ I felt Donald was overused in the World Cup when there was no need for him to bowl in the games against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe . ’ |
10 | However , 1946 saw him competing for the gloves with Paul Gibb and the veteran Arthur Wood . |
11 | The loyal voter may have voted consistently out of party principle , or because ties of dependence persistently obliged him to defer to the wishes of committed partisans amongst the local elite . |
12 | I glanced round a couple of times expecting him to appear through the trees with a mouthful of oaths and a loud ‘ Come on , Boyo ! |
13 | In Flight of Fancy ( pp 64 ) he grapples with the problems of building a flying machine while Informagic ( pp 72 ) finds him trapped in the workings of a giant computer . |
14 | I would no doubt see him walking on the cliffs with an ancient spaniel at his heels . |
15 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
16 | A delighted , if somewhat bewildered smile tugging at her own mouth , her eyes alight with laughter , she watched him melt into the crowds . |
17 | Gould took the opportunity of taking Lear with him on this ornithological grand tour , and at some point managed to enlist him to work on the Birds of Europe with Mrs Gould . |
18 | He receives for his employment a take home pay of seventy three pounds per week , he lives with his parents and pays a board of twenty pounds per week he 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
19 | He 's fortunate in that his employer takes him to work in the mornings but he has to catch the bus home in the evening and a at lunchtime on Saturdays which costs him seven pounds forty . |
20 | These are the affirmations that were being made as Jesus trotted in Jerusalem with this little donkey , his followers gathered all around him looking from the heights of the walls of Jerusalem , there must have been one or two curious , astonished , worried eyes , the Sanhedrin , the Chief Elders , |
21 | Cato appears as arrogant in his determination to fulfil the canons , despite the offer to consecrate him made by the bishops who attended Gallus 's funeral ; his subsequent refusal of the see of Tours does nothing to enhance his reputation . |
22 | Then we heard him shouting from the depths : Is anybody there ? he was telling us he had broken both legs , and there was a lot of blood . |
23 | However , as Akiskal has no data to enable him to elaborate on the processes involved or the interaction of the contributing factors , his model does not yet have any practical value . |
24 | The buyer is the only party to have broken the contract and the seller will be entitled to damages from him according to the principles just outlined . |
25 | Moreover , it is not our function to form a view in relation to any one of these appellants of the proper period for him to serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and then if we disagree with the Secretary of State 's tariff say that the Secretary of State was wrong and quash his decision . |
26 | During World War I his pacifist convictions led him to serve with the Friends ' Ambulance Unit in France and then with the Friends ' War Victims ' Relief Committee in Russia . |
27 | He was wearing the unobtrusive shabby clothes with soft shoes that would allow him to plod round the streets without being noticed . |
28 | A later ( later in terms of the Quarto numbering , that is ) example of this type of sonnet , with its disgusted ‘ withdrawal of the Poet ’ gesture , is 95 : The exclamatory style , the notably affectionate gestures , the epithets of praise ( ‘ sweet and lovely ’ , ‘ sweets ’ , ‘ beauty 's veil ’ in line 11 ) almost convince us that the Friend 's personal attractiveness can somehow transmute evil to good , a form of paradoxical hyperbole that Shakespeare gives to Lepidus , attempting to excuse Antony 's faults to Caesar : ‘ His faults in him seem as the spots of heaven , /More fiery by night 's blackness ’ ( Antony and Cleopatra , I.iv.13f ) . |
29 | right then we got on to talking about him going into the gents and what he does , he do n't shut the door and such |
30 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |