Example sentences of "him [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of herself she watched his departing back , hating him for that supple arrogance in his walk , the way that simply by walking away from her he could fill her with an inexplicable , infuriating urge to run after him … |
| 2 | ‘ He was upset that the boy would try to tap him for that dreadful suit . |
| 3 | ‘ I have a Matchbox racing set I had bought and put away for him for that coming Christmas , but he never got to see it . |
| 4 | And as Jake nodded , Shiona reluctantly resigned herself to being trapped at the table with him for another little while . |
| 5 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 6 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 7 | It is quite reasonable for a purchaser to assume that a vendor who sells land for a particular purpose will not do anything to prevent its being used for that purpose , but it would be utterly unreasonable to assume that the vendor was undertaking restrictive obligations which would prevent his using land retained by him for any lawful purpose whatsoever … |
| 8 | A machine may well perform these tasks for him for some considerable period of time , but it has come to be accepted that once the brain can be shown to be dead , the machine is not keeping the patient ‘ alive ’ in any accepted sense of the word ; it is merely ventilating a corpse . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 10 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 11 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 12 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 13 | The southern entrance to the Bay was protected by a fearsome group of rocks , Les Cardinals , to port and a treacherous shoal , Le Four , to starboard and , with the weather worsening , Admiral Conflans was confident Hawke would not dare to pursue him through this hazardous gap without the benefit of local pilots , but he had underrated both his adversary 's daring and his seamanship . |
| 14 | By being supportive like this , it will reassure him that his family love him and are there to help him through this difficult time . |
| 15 | WHEN Country Member potters nervously into the paddock at Newbury today , the club regulars might feel inclined to dismiss him as some embarrassing visitor with straw in his hair . |
| 16 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 17 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 18 | How could she tell him about that dreadful note , about what had really driven her out here ? |
| 19 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 20 | We were just going to ask him about this proposed pay rise that 's all . |
| 21 | I do n't understand the details , but apparently Mrs Danby got her lawyer on to him about some financial thing . |
| 22 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 23 | With Mr Crump 's wealth … his dreams of money diverted his energy from the sexual lust which had gripped him after that effervescent meeting with the Crumps . |
| 24 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 25 | It reminded him of another mad suggestion from a man in California , offering the contras $50m if they would go and take over Malta . |
| 26 | He 's had a lifelong fight with feminists who accuse him of extreme male chauvinism and damaging their dignity . |
| 27 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 28 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 29 | It 's pointed teeth remind him of some giant cheese grater with a mind of it 's own , face smiling ready to strike . |
| 30 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |