Example sentences of "him [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he furious because she 'd led him on only to change her mind at the last minute ? |
| 2 | Charlotte , her eyes on Albert who was taking her attention , asked him rather half-heartedly to desist , but the boy threw the ball out of the window . |
| 3 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 4 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 5 | She had not known him long enough to become accustomed to the impact of his looks , but she felt confident she could hide any extra fluttering of the pulse which he gave her . |
| 6 | He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’ |
| 7 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 8 | I urge him not merely to consider the matter but , because of the strength of feeling shown here , to take action as soon as possible , so that our hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester , West and his family will not have suffered in vain . |
| 9 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 10 | Once the individual begins to establish regularities , to generalise over experience , it becomes possible for him not only to recognise a particular experience as being one of a type , say a scolding or an interview , it also becomes possible to predict what is likely to happen , what are likely to be the relevant features of context , within a particular type of communicative event . |
| 11 | She let the dress fall , pushing him away gently to slip out of tiny white satin briefs . |
| 12 | It 's just that I have arranged to meet him tonight sometime to sort out a few things for me would of made a lot more sense if he 'd been here ! |
| 13 | You may , however , need to go further and meet him more regularly to discuss issues of current concern , so that any major problem is not withheld by this changed relationship . |
| 14 | They used to let him up here to practise from time to time . ’ |
| 15 | Unsettled by the riddle , Mungo finally decided that Jos had probably shut him up just to get some peace . |
| 16 | It is high time Eubank put on another world-class performance , but opponents such as Gimenez simply do n't fire him up enough to produce his best . |
| 17 | This superb American served the Allies on the sea and in the post-war relief organizations till disgust at the treatment of the Poles by the Western Alliance sent him back home to lick his wounds and write an epic book . |
| 18 | I did n't like Mike , ’ she says , ‘ I strolled in and he did n't like me , he was at that age when he did n't like people if they did n't look cool so I hated him because he used to be really sarcastic and I did n't know him well enough to realise that he was only messing . |
| 19 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 20 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 21 | ‘ Brian said he felt Jason could do us a job , and I know him well enough to realise that his judgement is worth following . |
| 22 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 23 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 24 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 25 | ‘ I know we should n't have let him go , but I did n't feel we know him well enough to tell him he was too drunk to drive . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 're sure you know him well enough to make that claim with authority ? ’ |
| 27 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 28 | Malik mispunched Malcolm over mid-on , and Lamb 's little legs could n't carry him fast enough to get underneath the chance . |
| 29 | ‘ But this attack has hit him hard enough to call you back at once . |
| 30 | I thought I would speak to Otto , ask him how best to go about having Jean-Claude 's work assessed for performance . |