Example sentences of "of the [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 2 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 3 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 4 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 5 | He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up . |
| 6 | Envoys have already been sent to the Norwegian court to apprise King Eric of the circumstances and to beg him to send the Maid back to Scotland as soon as possible . |
| 7 | Holly searched for the next opportunity to strike again at the administration of the camp that held him . |
| 8 | Under s95(4) a police constable can be authorised to take charge of the child and bring him to court and to enter and search any named premises if he has reasonable cause to believe that the child may be found there ( s95(4) ) . |
| 9 | HERA , Zeus ' wife , was jealous of the child and cursed him to travel the earth , bestowing the gift of wine-making on those who were kind to him and sending insane those who treated him badly . |
| 10 | I might argue that a particular capitalist economist is so embedded in the political and economic structure of the society that employs him that he fails to represent adequately the challenge levelled by ‘ political economy ’ to the perspective he purveys , and thus fails to take into account multiple points of view . |
| 11 | As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm . |
| 12 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 13 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
| 14 | Sometimes he 's so determined he 's not going to go that we have to forcibly put him out of the door and get him into the car and get him there somehow . |
| 15 | Marie Wassilieff relates that she seized the gun , forced Modigliani out of the door and rolled him down the stairs . |
| 16 | She prised her husband 's fingers from the edge of the door and pulled him into the hall . |
| 17 | Whenever he had leisure after that Paul worked on it ; but the Professor began to show a marked desire for his company , and took him with him to other houses where he would hear interesting talk of the kind that stimulated him . |
| 18 | The plenum also " dismissed " Ho Dam from his post as secretary of the KWP and replaced him with Kim Yong Sun . |
| 19 | They overtook him when he was n't expecting it ; they pulled up at the side of the road and trapped him behind them ; they got in front of him at traffic-lights and then decided to turn right . |
| 20 | She pulled Ballyveamore over to the side of the road and stopped him . |
| 21 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 22 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 23 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 24 | If you are in two minds then give the candidate the benefit of the doubt and allow him or her to come for interview and elaborate on the details given on the form . |
| 25 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 26 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 27 | But when a Scottish defector from Edwards army arrived with reports of the miserable morale of the English and exhorted him with the words ‘ Now 's the time and now 's the hour ’ , he again decided to take the initiative . |
| 28 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 29 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 30 | Members of the gang that kidnapped him are reported to have offered to tell where his remains are , in return for immunity from prosecution . |