Example sentences of "him [vb infin] [prep] a [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 fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It makes him look like a racist prat . |
| 9 | Time magazine still regarded him as a bit of an upstart , stating that his attempts at humour made him look like a third Smothers Brothers , and his laconic manner appeared to be a handy substitute for acting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | With hindsight it makes him sound like a manipulative sexual deviant . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 14 | ‘ Not last night ; I heard him come in a long time after I went to bed . |
| 15 | It had earlier looked promising for White , as breaks of 73 , 64 , and 52 helped him cruise into a 4-2 lead . |
| 16 | Bismarck pushed the Dual Monarchy towards Italy — he was momentarily upset by a burst of panslavism which made him worry about a Franco-Russian rapprochement — and the result was the Triple Alliance ( 20 May 1882 ) . |
| 17 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 18 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm just asking you to think about it , ’ I heard him say in a calm voice . |
| 20 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 21 | It was 03.17 and I was just in time to see him climb into a waiting car and drive off . |
| 22 | ‘ We made him agree to a hundred pounds for the child 's family . |