Example sentences of "him [vb infin] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this evidence I 'd like to hear him conduct some genuine Delius . |
| 2 | Wagland created the chance with a mazy run that saw him elude several desperate challenges . |
| 3 | It is particularly important that this message comes from the woman : your partner is still a real man and you have to let him know that loud and clear . |
| 4 | It was a position which helped him survive many subsequent close calls , particularly during the wave of anti-foreign sentiment engendered under the later years of President Sukarno 's regime . |
| 5 | It was the start of nearly 50 years hanging bells in churches across the country , so when the 6 at St Thomas 's in Oxford needed repairing , he told parishioners to ring the changes and let him install 4 extra ones . |
| 6 | In no time at all , he was scrubbed shiny , dressed in his night-shift , and seated in the big armchair , with the heat from the fire drying his hair and making him feel all sleepy . |
| 7 | Catherine was sounding tough and rational , but something in her voice made him feel this whole discussion was uncomfortable for her . |
| 8 | Fancy her thinking that getting him that lamp would make him feel any different about moving . |
| 9 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 10 | Have you ever seen him do that flying spin kick ? |
| 11 | What on earth made him use this appalling Americanism , he wondered . |
| 12 | It was , it was bad that she used to those draws that bad that after so long you 'd see him go all white and then you 'd gradually see round the crutch then so , more |
| 13 | It called for the appointment of a science adviser at cabinet level and early enough in the new president 's term to help him fill other scientific posts , an expanded Office of Science and Technology Policy ( OSTP ) and access to expert outside advice . |
| 14 | I must say , though , I think it is very good of you , Les , to let him play those frosty games between November and April in his overcoat . |
| 15 | It saddens me to hear him say such silly things that probably are not even true . ’ |