Example sentences of "him [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 2 | Certainly Jenny did not see him for the first few evenings she was at Moorlake . |
| 3 | Hill 's ban ended in time for the 1987 World Cup but Bristol 's Richard Harding , who replaced him for the final Five Nations match — a stirring victory over Scotland — was first-choice in Australia and Hill 's last game for two years was against the United States . |
| 4 | Jazz 's target was to stay with him for the full four minutes . |
| 5 | But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with . |
| 6 | Pain relief is important in myocardial infarction , but let that not be an excuse for filling a patient with opiates and then forgetting about him for the next 2 hours as he quietly rots his myocardium in some corner of the accident and emergency department . |
| 7 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 8 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 9 | We 've heard nothing from him for the past four months since that heart attack in Italy . |
| 10 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 11 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 12 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 13 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 14 | But by 1830 Burn had left the Greek revival behind him for the subdued Italianate of his branch banks and the big , simple palazzo from of his New Club on Edinburgh 's Princes Street of 1834 . |
| 15 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 16 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 17 | ‘ We have him for the last five games of the League run-in . |
| 18 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 19 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 20 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 21 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
| 22 | She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame . |
| 23 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 24 | Following him through the double front door , she received an instant impression of coolness and light ; polished wooden floors strewn with traditional rugs , simple clean-lined furniture in the Danish tradition and pastel-coloured walls . |
| 25 | That stubbornness had got him through the last four years , but he had finally had to admit that walking out on his wife had been the biggest mistake of his life . |
| 26 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 27 | Thank you friends , we all know him as the one million pound councillor . |
| 28 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 29 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 30 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |