Example sentences of "him [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain . |
| 2 | A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements . |
| 3 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Kerr was Millwall 's leading scorer and a contender for Player of the Year until an ankle injury forced him to miss the closing weeks of last season . |
| 5 | This led him to compare the legal codes of archaic and modern societies in much the same manner as Maine had done . |
| 6 | She also made him promise the usual things like writing to her every day and keeping warm . |
| 7 | It is not unknown for a salesman to describe the product in glowing terms and you would expect him to highlight the best features . |
| 8 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 9 | He was giving a dramatic reading of a newspaper report of a murder trial , and we all enjoyed watching him act the main characters . |
| 10 | He did not take the sheaf of notes Marshall tendered but made him recite the relevant ones and in that way learned that three people said they had been wearing clothes which were , at least in part , cream-coloured . |
| 11 | The times had made him mistrust the militant kinds of heroism , though he unjustly saw himself as deficient in fortitude of another sort . |
| 12 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 13 | The news that something was amiss quickly spread to the rest of the group , who gathered round him to hear the latest developments . |
| 14 | A photographic memory enabled him to avoid the obvious suspicions which Special Branch officers noting the proceedings obviously fell under at such meetings . |
| 15 | It was Blackberry who bullied the stupefied Pipkin to his feet and forced him to limp the few yards to the gravel spit . |
| 16 | J. Riley , aged 14 , started his apprenticeship on 31 July 1903 at 45 and the wage-book shows him getting the regular rises described above . |
| 17 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 18 | However , by retaining his flexibility of action the Secretary of State has drafted the Bill so as to allow him to weaken the necessary protections . |
| 19 | The judge publicly rebuked the jury , and wrote to the Governor , J. West Ridgeway , asking him to pardon the convicted men . |
| 20 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 21 | She had never imagined him doing the ordinary things of life : taking a bath , shaving , going shopping , or sitting in a bar somewhere with his friends , laughing and telling jokes . |
| 22 | Eventually we persuaded him to contact the previous owners . |
| 23 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 24 | His father encouraged him to read the historical books of the Bible . |
| 25 | In a sense Lecercle ( whose own name doubtless encouraged him to consider the surplus meanings language provides ) is sticking up for parole , the language as she is spoke ( or written ) . |
| 26 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 27 | Broadly speaking , Derrida 's rigorous and far-reaching exploration of the implications of Saussure 's claim , that ‘ in language there are only differences without positive terms ’ , leads him to question the key concepts of structuralism ( in particular , sign and structure ) and its methodology ( as represented by poetics and semiology ) . |
| 28 | Then he moved , and the hard strength of him dissolved the very bones within her as she lay dazzled beneath the forest sky . |
| 29 | The handsome youngster was a flirt and a rebel-rouser at school but mostly he was a clown who craved affection — anything to help him forget the loveless days when he watched his drunkard father beat up his mother . |
| 30 | If in a sense it means how early can you teach children facts and contents and very straightforward knowledge , then I think the answer is not very early at all because it may be fairly meaningless that you could teach a child to repeat Newton 's law , perhaps the same way as you could teach him to repeat the eleven times table , but without a good concept of number or what Newton meant . |