Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Albert v. Lavin the question posed for the House of Lords was ‘ whether a constable who reasonably believes that a breach of the peace is about to take place is entitled to detain any person without arrest to prevent that breach of the peace in circumstances which appear to him to be proper . ’ |
| 2 | If the Secretary of State is satisfied … that any local education authority … have acted or are proposing to act unreasonably … he may … give such directions … as appear to him to be expedient . |
| 3 | She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'll stop people from picking on him for being different . ’ |
| 5 | ( 2 ) At or after the preliminary appointment if there be one , the arbitrator shall fix a date for the dispute to be heard ( unless the parties consent to his deciding it on the statements and documents submitted to him — an unusual course not usually acceptable to the parties or the district judge ) and he shall give such directions regarding the steps to be taken before and at the hearing as may appear to him to be necessary or desirable . |
| 6 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 7 | ‘ There is such a sense of loss , ’ she said , looking at him to be sure he understood this . |
| 8 | I 'd hate for him to be stuck up there for last week in March |
| 9 | Answering the question as to the state in which this love can best be practised , Rolle points to an inner quietness which seems for him to be achievable only in literal solitude and constrained stability : " er Goddes trone , dwelles still in a stede , and er noght abowte rennand " [ trone : throne ; a stede : one place ] ( 10.116.258 – 9 ) . |
| 10 | As a result the farm worker is as likely to resent the high wages paid to workers in other industries for what often appears to him to be little skill and less hard work as to harbour a sense of grievance against either farmers in general or his own boss in particular . |
| 11 | HIS great courage and imperturbable COOLNESS in the face of what must at times have seemed to him to be insuperable odds WAS , I must confess — although I do not really like him — quite UNBELIEVABLE . |
| 12 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 13 | Amid the tears and the angry words , she pleaded with him to be honest about how he felt about her and Camilla . |
| 14 | Oh well , would n't go to him to be honest |
| 15 | She liked working with her father too on such days because she could be commanded by him without being suspicious of him . |
| 16 | So , it was like a relief that I could talk to him about being pregnant . |
| 17 | His wife motioned to him to be quiet as she moved around the counter . |
| 18 | dogs barked in the farmyard , and Nosey howled in reply till Sharpe snapped at him to be quiet . |