Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 4 | It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks . |
| 5 | It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness . |
| 6 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 7 | Nowadays , parental responsibility may be viewed in the same light for school attendance as for child care generally , namely : ‘ the duty to care for the child and to raise him to moral , physical and emotional health … the fundamental task of parenthood and the only justification for the authority it confers ’ . |
| 8 | But his explanation for the lie that cost him his job failed to convince an industrial tribunal which rejected his claim for unfair dismissal . |
| 9 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he was perfect for the story and sent him a script with about as much hope as those who put messages in bottles and toss them in the ocean . ’ |
| 11 | But at the age of eighteen he was wholly unprepared for the terrors that awaited him . |
| 12 | It served a dual purpose ; it provided him with lots of material for the classroom and enabled him to discuss his ideas with colleagues from a wide variety of schools . |
| 13 | She apologized for the muddle and ushered him into the living-room . |
| 14 | There was no malice in Bones , only infinite good nature , a clumsy hope to please , a passing affection for the hand that fed him . |
| 15 | STEPHEN HENDRY continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure as he strives for the form that made him world champion just ten months ago . |
| 16 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 17 | The moneylenders then looked to Sim for the cash and threatened him and his family . |
| 18 | I 'll get Miller to draft a statement for the media and tell him to clear it with you before release . ’ |
| 19 | Erm I mean I 'm concerned again through his eyesight that i were we to put him as the assistant and put him on a machine , that he might just put his hand somewhere and get his hand bloody trapped or whatever with his eyesight . |
| 20 | Just before Jotan vanished completely into the mist , he walked softly out of the inlet between the buildings and followed him . |
| 21 | There was something about the wizard that irked Him beyond measure . |
| 22 | Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee . |
| 23 | Seth rarely talked about the things that set him apart from the rest of mankind . |
| 24 | There was a strange silence about the room that puzzled him . |
| 25 | She kept on his wavelength by talking about the subjects that pleased him most — and these frequently concentrated on the state of his behind . |
| 26 | She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch . |
| 27 | Rutherford said that he would give him a 20-minute start , then drive back through the village and collect him . |
| 28 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 29 | The hijacker in the black shirt came out of the Captain 's cabin behind the man in white , but two other men in white came through the door and shot him too . |
| 30 | He had laid by his sword , but he had a dagger still upon him , and managed to draw it and slash through the folds that smothered him ; and Norbury and Erpyngham and half a dozen others of his own people came plunging and splashing through the storm to help him out of these ominous grave-clothes . |