Example sentences of "him [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him think that Elinor may go at any minute . |
| 2 | When a king had been ‘ elected ’ , the Church gave him anointing and coronation . |
| 3 | Alongside Hopper , Fonda was a very stable character , loved his wife and wanted for little , except self-fulfilment , which gnawed away at his mind and caused him to drink and trip occasionally on LSD . |
| 4 | She winced , closing her eyes , not wanting to hear what came next , because she could guess , knowing Jamie so well — his envy and hatred of her father , his lifelong ambitions thwarted again and again , driving him to drink and gambling and unreasoning rage . |
| 5 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 6 | His research leads him to conclude that group think is characterized by : |
| 7 | It was not a magical experience , enabling him to go without food for the rest of his flight , but it was a meal for the spirit that kept him nourished and firm in his intention until he reached Horeb the mountain of God ( 1 Kings 19:1–8 ) . |
| 8 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 9 | After the terrible night when Lok and Fa have dared to cross to the island in an attempt to rescue the abducted children , Lok 's feelings are described : " there was stuffed inside the bones of his head the white flock of the autumn creepers , their seeds were in his nose , making him yawn and sneeze " ( p. 134 ) . |
| 10 | Harbury asked , remembering the previous time he had visited the flat when Oliver had encouraged him to stay and Rain had encouraged him to go . |
| 11 | Not with him watching and listening . |