Example sentences of "him [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 2 | ‘ You could have kept him on for two quid a week . |
| 3 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 4 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 5 | The loving parent who tries to shield the child from harm to such an extent that he becomes timid and anxious can cause as many problems as the thoughtless and impatient adult who thinks that telling the child he is stupid will spur him on to greater efforts . |
| 6 | Today we meet young comedienne Lois Waters and her dad Denny , and tomorrow Chris Boardman talks about the man who spurred him on to Olympic fame . |
| 7 | He was too slow , or too fast ; so that sweeping — and most of his day he spent sweeping , brushing the floors , the shavings from the machines — he was either busy or , conversely , slack to stand on his brush , an affront to Parker who would move him on to some other task . |
| 8 | ‘ Cathy Henderson better not hear him on like that , ’ Natasha said . |
| 9 | Why could n't she let him in to that private part of herself that sometimes cried out for — what ? |
| 10 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |
| 11 | Christ , why had AD let him in for this ? |
| 12 | so he said I 've had to , they 'd have to keep him in for ten days or more you know |
| 13 | We 'll let him in for free ! |
| 14 | While you 're about it , get him in for some For Eyes . " |
| 15 | So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all . |
| 16 | She would not explain herself to Luke Scott , because to do so would mean he mattered to her , and to let him matter in even the smallest way was to make herself vulnerable — to let him in at some level , and she had an intuitive sense of the havoc he could wreak once admitted to the number of those people who mattered in her life in their various ways . |
| 17 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 18 | Nicholls put him in after 51 minutes and he brilliantly chested the ball down before sweeping a shot past McKeown . |
| 19 | It 's not fair to keep him in like that . |
| 20 | Instead , I led him in by secret ways , going round the Hospital of St Katherine , past the Tower , to Custom House on the corner of Thames Street near the Woolquay . |
| 21 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 22 | Coetzer , 6ft 4ins and nearly 16 stones , was ranked No.1 contender by the WBA and IBF until last month in Las Vegas , when Riddick Bowe stopped him in round seven . |
| 23 | Chase turned out to be a tuba player , of all things , though I would have put him down as backing vocals for The Communards on appearances alone . |
| 24 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |
| 25 | ‘ You try pinning him down at such short notice . |
| 26 | I talked him down at one point |
| 27 | She 'd just er put him down at ten and , and that , that was that . |
| 28 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 29 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 30 | Then he hosed him down with warm water until all traces of the beck had been removed . |