Example sentences of "him [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |
| 2 | Akram swept him for four between the two fielders in front of the grandstand . |
| 3 | BOWLER Vic Macey joked he 'd break a pal 's leg if he hit him for four at a Paignton cricket match — then DID accidentally after the game . |
| 4 | Bob 's abilities were recognised by the Southern League authorities , who selected him for one of their inter-League games during 1912–13 and he was awarded a Benefit by the Palace in 1914–15 , along with his half-back colleagues , Jimmy Hughes and Harry Hanger . |
| 5 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 6 | diagram for for that erm mark five out there could you ask him for one of them ? |
| 7 | ‘ Take him for all in all , |
| 8 | Fullback Marty Roebuck could also miss out as an ankle operation is likely to sideline him for six to seven weeks . |
| 9 | Men are portrayed as being powerless : CB LOLITA , 13 , HAD SEX ON THE SLIDE ( ‘ A girl of 13 had sex on a kiddies ' playground slide with a young man she contacted over CB radio , a court heard yesterday ’ ) ; Bedtime antics of a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ ( ‘ A 13-year-old girl … described as a ‘ latter-day Lolita ’ went to bed with one man … and then swapped him for another in the same room ’ ) ; Girl , 15 , tempted her mother 's man ( ‘ She had made propositions to him three times which he resisted before succumbing ’ ) ; Sex-case man goes to jail ( Defence counsel claimed ‘ the initiative in the sexual relationship came from the girl ’ ) ; CABBlE 'S TEEN SEX SESSIONS ( ‘ Taxi driver … found the cheeky advances of a teenage Lolita hard to resist ’ ) ; CHOIRMASTER AND GIRL , 15 ( ‘ I was tempted and that 's all ’ ) ; Girl gave rapist sex lesson ( ‘ A 14-year-old girl put out a challenge to a convicted rapist … . |
| 10 | Wessels launched an immediate counter-attack when he entered in the day 's second over , mostly with pulls and cuts , and counted eight fours and a top-edged pull for six off Ambrose who removed him for 59 to a sharp low catch at point 35 minutes after lunch . |
| 11 | He is a central defender I think and the Blades bought him for 350,000 from Palace . |
| 12 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
| 13 | I 'll get him for both of us . ’ |
| 14 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 15 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 16 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 17 | He wondered what he had done to make his parents want to get rid of him for most of the summer holidays . |
| 18 | In 1988 he moved again , this time to Lotus , but he had to be content with watching the McLaren duo of Alain Prost and fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna in front of him for most of the season . |
| 19 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 20 | Two men have stood by him for most of his career — Homer Scott and Ian Ferguson — and it was heartening for Homer that Pat was able to ride Glitter Grey to victory in the Governors Cup at Down Royal . |
| 21 | Keith was with him through all of it and I think it made them very close , ’ adds Rigby . |
| 22 | And Shaunagh was there to help him through one of the most embarrassing moments of his life . |
| 23 | Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ? |
| 24 | Maybe we 'll be able to count him as one of our successes yet . ’ |
| 25 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 26 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 27 | After Labour won the 1945 election , Burke accompanied Attlee to the Potsdam Conference ; and later that year the Prime Minister named him as one of his private secretaries . |
| 28 | Shaw joined the company in 1944 and was still only 17 when Ashton used him as one of the three male dancers in Symphonic Variations . |
| 29 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 30 | He was , indeed , a model for more than them : the French kings had also inherited his throne , and looked back to him as one of their greatest predecessors . |