Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] him [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award .
2 When he had finished eating , she followed him into the drawing-room and watched him open her present .
3 If the local standing of bishops could often overflow into effective influence at the court of the emperor or the king and give him influence with them and their officials , the bishop was primarily a leader of the local community : the Christian people of the town and the surrounding countryside .
4 I untied the painter from its iron ring in the concrete , then squatted on the jetty and watched him fiddle inside the hatch .
5 Instead , the finger of doom is pointing at Malcolm Crosby , a Wearside hero when he led Sunderland to the FA Cup final last season , but perilously close to getting his P45 if the players that love him let him down again today at Derby .
6 Philip ran down the bracken bank to the gate and watched him run down the field to Mrs Wright who was walking slowly down the field .
7 She sat on the floor and watched him take away her shoes and his shoes .
8 Only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks .
9 As The Economist pointed out , ‘ only a few go through the final humiliation of meeting the bailiff at the door and watching him change the locks ’ .
10 I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London .
11 The filmed evidence of Barry smoking crack was undermined by the prevalent opinion that the FBI " sting " operation — in which Moore lured Barry to the hotel and offered him crack — had been over-zealous to the point that it had constituted a form of entrapment .
12 We followed Dick back to the airport and watched him make a ‘ grease job ’ of a landing to conclude his solo flight .
13 I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk .
14 I sat with him in the canteen before a programme and watched him eat his way steadily through eight Eccles cakes with a glass of milk .
15 MacGregor has the advantage of breadth of experience in Government , especially as Chief Secretary to the Treasury , a post that won him praise from the former Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , whatever that is worth these days .
16 On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here .
17 So I had to see Dad every day and have him deplore me .
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