Example sentences of "[prep] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 2 | ‘ 'Morning , ’ he said cheerfully , as she walked towards him to take the proffered bottle . |
| 3 | He flicked away another cigarette as they made their way towards him to continue the drive still higher into the hills . |
| 4 | ‘ He walked by the tree shade of sunny winking leaves , and towards him came the wife of Mr David Shehee MP . |
| 5 | Mr Browning out of the kindness of his heart and because Mr Landor I believe was once his champion when no one thought anything of him brought the old gentleman to Siena and prevailed upon Mr Story his friend to take him in . |
| 6 | Ahead of him stretched the future , and this time , instead of a summer landscape full of lush green fields , it suddenly took on a closed and wintry air . |
| 7 | The chances of him waiving the clause are looking slim . ’ |
| 8 | The chances of him waiving the clause are looking slim . ’ |
| 9 | Anderson himself , in scene five , remarks on the fact that language allows him to 'show off a bit " ( p. 63 ) but this comment occurs in the context of his longest turn , which is the most obvious example of him violating the maxim of manner . |
| 10 | but he used , instead of him buying the wood or getting me to give him the money for the wood , he cannibalized the fucking wardrobes and used the sides and the |
| 11 | The entire first half consisted of film of Botham 's greatest moments , liberally interspersed with more film of him drinking the sponsor 's lager . |
| 12 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 13 | The pilot survived , and a photograph of him holding the swastika emblem removed from the fin of the Heinkel was taken recently , naturally a most emotional experience . |
| 14 | It took a few minutes for his eyes to adjust to the dimness , and he remained still , blinking hard , making out the man standing directly in front of him holding the shotgun , while on the stairs to his left another person — a woman ? — was also holding what looked like a small pistol on him . |
| 15 | She was so eager to embrace the chance of Ortiz being alive — of him holding the key to Samantha 's freedom — that she shouted the words , rousing the waitress from a slumped reverie by the till . |
| 16 | But the memory of him holding the Jules Rimet trophy triumphantly aloft is etched on the memories of millions . |
| 17 | There was no question of him hearing the noise in the stillness of the waxworks . |
| 18 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 19 | ‘ How do I look — ’ She stopped dead , her heart flipping over under the sweater as Penry Vaughan leapt to his feet at the sight of her , the height and breadth of him overpowering the entire room . |
| 20 | ‘ That was nice of him to bring the flowers . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps those are sounds you could use in your own composition , ’ speculates the school 's head of music , Paul Chamberlain , whose quest for strange noises has led to the possibility of him poaching the National Curriculum 's science of sound course from Fartown 's physics department . |
| 22 | Well it 's just a question of him arranging the transport to get rid of it . |
| 23 | Then he moved , and the hard strength of him dissolved the very bones within her as she lay dazzled beneath the forest sky . |
| 24 | And if your view of him confirms the Marshal 's then we 'll do as you say . |
| 25 | One side of him found the inspector attractive and amusing . |
| 26 | Not that you suspect him because you do n't like the look of him walking the streets — he 's got to be a suspected person . |
| 27 | Macari said reports of him spending the weekend talking to Celtic director David Smith were ‘ pure rubbish , ’ and that he 'd still not seen or spoken to anyone from Celtic Park . |
| 28 | Joseph lunged toward it , but the sight of him terrorized the gibbon further , and it set off frantically towards the only visible refuge . |
| 29 | As the camera pans left with this tennis player it is aimed slightly ahead of him to balance the shot by allowing ‘ walking room ’ . |
| 30 | Morse thanked the man , and walked along to the ramp at the side of the flats , and down to a concreted area where five garages directly in front of him shielded the immediate view . |