Example sentences of "him [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lepers made him think about the two who lurked in the cemetery of St Erconwald . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In this regard it is interesting to hear him comment in The Favourite Game that ‘ deprivation is the mother of poetry . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now I see him scramble for the fallen gun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It makes him look like a racist prat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With hindsight it makes him sound like a manipulative sexual deviant . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Some of his feats make him sound like the Bionic Man . |
| 24 | He glanced at Lambert and saw him blaze at a green-and-yellow plane , then bank hard away as tracer scorched past . |
| 25 | Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in . |
| 26 | This particular trucker 's agent had gone out of business late on New Year 's Eve , one of a number of last-minute bankruptcies and mergers and a new agent would somehow have to be found to stamp his papers if Customs were to let him depart on the 20.15 sailing . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She heard him gasp at the sheer beauty of her superb feminine body . |
| 30 | From any of these positions I would be crazy to make him play with the left knee inflamed the way it is . ’ |