Example sentences of "him [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school . |
| 2 | To his embarrassment , the lawyer at the hearings then obliged him to go through a whole code-sheet to get the names into the record , or perhaps just to entertain the audience . |
| 3 | He remembered old dad VATman up at Hoomey 's sitting by the fire and how he had wanted to go there , and that made him think of a good name : Lucky Fireside … no , Firelight , Lucky Firelight . |
| 4 | Richard suffers from narcolepsy … a condition of the brain which causes him to fall into a sudden , uncontrolled and spontaneous sleep several times a day . |
| 5 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 6 | ‘ of a qualified driver ’ The supervisor must be a ‘ qualified driver ’ as defined in regulation 9(6) of the Motor Vehicles ( Driving Licences ) Regulations 1987 , namely , a person who holds a full licence authorising him to drive as a full licence holder a motor vehicle of the same class or description as the vehicle being driven by the holder of the provisional licence . |
| 7 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 8 | The defender is often faced with a claim of exorbitant amount , an agent for the pursuer who is unprepared or unable to quantify the same properly , and a pursuer who believes that his accident will be sufficient to enable him to retire to a comfortable abode in the sun . |
| 9 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 10 | I think the death of David 's father was probably what took him a while to make the decision about leaving Ken , because to lose his father , who he really adored , who had always been a pillar of strength to him , changed his life , and I think David carried a bitterness about him dying for a long time . |
| 11 | Once , the script required him to jump through a plate-glass window . |
| 12 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 13 | I talk to him walking through a packed mid-evening Tokyo , our interview interrupted as a fellow headache passes by . |
| 14 | The scene had called for him to stand on a cliff-top , surveying the land stretching out behind — land he and his marauding band had taken by force . |
| 15 | By the mid-1950s his growing reputation enabled him to concentrate on a literary career . |
| 16 | She asks him to recognize his father 's wisdom in trying to encourage him to work for a steady position and shares his anxiety about delays with Blackwoods , over the publication of The Woodland Life . |
| 17 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 18 | She tried to picture him looking like a French version of Cobalt , for whom she felt no physical attraction at all , and then she tried to calculate whether , in that guise , he was not a more likely murderer . |
| 19 | He was swearing steadily and obscenely as he did so , realising that the windscreen damage inflicted by the near miss would make it well-nigh impossible for him to engage in a high speed chase now . |
| 20 | We did what we could but , ideally , I 'd like to see him moved to a proper unit , specialising in orthopaedics . |
| 21 | They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall . |
| 22 | They tried to imagine him acting in a comic manner the part of a man who had murdered three wives in a bath . |
| 23 | And with him going to a different school . |
| 24 | But the Hank in his mind , the one who calmed him down and cheered him up and got him going in a sensible way — she was just the sort of fantasy mother you 'd make up if your own mother was too strong , too passionate , too overwhelming . |
| 25 | He stopped when he saw the twisted grin on Luther 's face , and it made him remember with a falling heart that this man was not his real father . |
| 26 | Although tolerant of the religious beliefs of others , his belief in the work ethic and his intolerance of alcohol made him insist on a stern regime for others . |
| 27 | I see you 've talked to Pickerage , ’ said Mr Crumwallis , his long , bony body now fully inside and draped up against the doorpost , his head poked forward , the whole effect being to make him look like a bereaved ostrich . |
| 28 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 29 | His big , red face was turned towards her , attentive in the cigarette 's glow ; his moustache , like two orange tusks , made him look like a gentle walrus . |
| 30 | It makes him look like a racist prat . |