Example sentences of "him [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 3 | The society claims that there are ‘ cosmic masters ’ in the universe and that they have come ‘ to give priceless teachings to man to help him prepare for the New World and to bring a great millennium of peace ’ . |
| 4 | He was , he was , th they they took him , they chained him up , and they let him loose in the local cemetery , and left him there . |
| 5 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 6 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |
| 7 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It makes him look like a racist prat . |
| 14 | Marjorie helps him on with his camelhair overcoat , a garment she persuaded him to buy against his better judgement , for it hangs well below his knees and , he thinks , accentuates his short stature , as well as making him look like a prosperous bookie . |
| 15 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 16 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 17 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 18 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 19 | With hindsight it makes him sound like a manipulative sexual deviant . |
| 20 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 21 | Some of his feats make him sound like the Bionic Man . |
| 22 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 23 | She led Midnight to a clear patch and then let him walk on the long rein , so that she stayed still and he walked round her in a circle at the end of the rein . |
| 24 | Perhaps it was these journeys that made him realise to the full how many of the world 's species were on the brink of extinction . |
| 25 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 26 | From any of these positions I would be crazy to make him play with the left knee inflamed the way it is . ’ |
| 27 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 28 | The Irish selectors were keen to see him play in the inter-pro series in his bid for a place in the Irish side . |
| 29 | Then he says ‘ But he who tells of wars and heaven , under the sway of grown up Jupiter , of pious heroes and semi-divine leaders , who at one moment things of the holy assemblies of the gods on high and then of those deep kingdoms where a fierce dog barks , let him live in the frugal manner of Pythagoras and let herbs provide his harmless diet ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |