Example sentences of "him [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
2 | KMT secretary-general James Soong tendered his resignation in the election aftermath , but President Lee persuaded him to remain in his post . |
3 | The Lord spoke to a nightwatchman in the port of Valparaiso in a dream , instructing him to go to his pastor and tell him to gather his most spiritual people together to pray every day . |
4 | She promised Louis all the money she had earned , and asked him to go to his cousin who would contact the SOE reseau . |
5 | " How long do you think it would take whoever killed him to go through his pockets and cut out the clothes labels ? " asked Sergeant Burgess . |
6 | Mrs Jones needs a closer and better relationship with the psychiatric services ; she needs to get them to listen to her needs and she also needs someone to provide practical help with money problems for her son , someone who can discuss work opportunities , recognize his need for friendship and help him think about his future . |
7 | Omar Arteh Ghaleb , who had been Prime Minister of Somalia 's interim government since February , resigned on Aug. 20 ; Radio Mogadishu reported , however , that President Mahdi , who had been sworn in himself on Aug. 18 [ see p. 38323 ] , had asked him to continue with his responsibilities until a successor was appointed . |
8 | To see him fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sèvres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee . |
9 | By half-term , a local parent with a child at Cedars had offered to put Balbinder on the coach in the morning and let him stay at her house until he could be picked up in the evening . |
10 | She 'd let him stay on his own at any rate . |
11 | However , Richard Baxter did see the Bishop , and , even though he was n't arrested , the Bishop forbade him to preach in his diocese . |
12 | When the patient is having long-term treatment at home , it is often worthwhile for him to invest in his own treatment plinth , if he can afford it , and if there is space for it . |
13 | I could feel him rooting through my past . |
14 | He probably has n't got the same skin type as you , anyway , so do n't let him dip into your moisturiser ! |
15 | as if from nowhere Henry , too , appeared and , crouching in the corner of the couch , Emma now watched him struggling with her mother , and when he wrenched the poker from her hand and flung it across the room , there was the sound of splintering wood , which brought about an inevitable silence , punctuated only by gasps . |
16 | She allowed the idea of falling in love with him dance across her mind but soon dismissed it with a smile . |
17 | She did n't want to hear what he would say , did n't want to compound this foolishness with more folly , did n't want to hear him gloat at her easy capitulation . |
18 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
19 | Unthinking , she tightened her grip and felt him laugh under her hands . |
20 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
21 | A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence . |
22 | ‘ It sounds reasonable , tell him to arrange for his solicitor to be here in the morning . ’ |
23 | ‘ We 've got to treat Patricia carefully , ’ she had overheard him say to her mother one night . |
24 | ‘ You should dry your hair — ’ he began , but Leonora shook her head violently and brushed past him to leap into his bed . |
25 | Battered , bruised and broken , Ralph Baughan is now back at home recovering from the vicious attack which saw him tipped from his wheelchair and repeatedly smashed with a wooden bar ; all for £10 . |
26 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
27 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
28 | Holly carried him cradled in his arms , retraced his steps , stretched over the low wooden fence and was back , swallowed again among the zeks . |
29 | book him to lecture to your club or in your town , or buy a copy of his autobiographical Tales of Many Mountains ( published by the |
30 | ‘ Do you know what made him steal from his employer all those years ago ? ’ |