Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 2 | She did , and the sudden flare of her eyes made him let her go . |
| 3 | The flash of hope in her eyes made him wish he could report a more substantial discovery than the meagre piece of intelligence he had to contribute . |
| 4 | Equally , it is not unknown for a partner gradually to lose interest in mundane administrative matters : often enough the problems that this can cause are exacerbated by his co-partners allowing him to escape his share of responsibility over a long period . |
| 5 | Once , feeling herself slipping away dangerously into another land , a land of sweet warmth , desire and sensation , she opened her eyes to see him watching her and , for a moment , Kelly felt uneasy , almost manipulated . |
| 6 | She was no longer the mild , gentle creature who had gone down on her knees to implore him to make her his wife , but a sturdy , tight-lipped puritan of a woman who saw duty before all else and who always took care to drum the same principle into her children . |
| 7 | As Endill ate his breakfast he felt a thousand eyes watch him put his cold piece of toast into his mouth and it sent shivers down his spine . |
| 8 | The words blocked in her throat as her eyes begged him to help her out . |
| 9 | I think my guards bribed him to let us pass . |
| 10 | Politeness forced him to offer one . |
| 11 | The thought of all those blonde movie stars in Palm Springs pursuing him made her feel quite sick . |
| 12 | His parents want him to continue his navy career which was the cause of so much celebration a year ago . |
| 13 | These grass-smoking disciples flocked to his open house like moths to hear him reciting his life story , or his predictions with the tarot cards , or discussing Camus , or analysing Jean-Paul Sartre . |
| 14 | However , his great energy and militaristic abilities enabled him to extend his sway deep into Moorish territory — in particular the Caliphate of Valencia . |
| 15 | The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention . |
| 16 | Former DN member Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra , the current C.-in-C. of the re-formed Armed Forces , had declined to be renominated for the leadership , claiming that his national responsibilities obliged him to abandon his previous FSLN posts . |
| 17 | I do n't suggest that these unfavourable writings pushed him to do what he did , though I do n't mind suggesting that the bigotry and vicarious piety they may be reckoned to contain could be classed among the negative experiences of the last months of his life . |
| 18 | Myles helped him to take it off and hung it up . |
| 19 | Dr Jaffery 's nieces begged him to tell us one of his Mullah Nasir-ud-Din stories and eventually he obliged . |
| 20 | He has hired consultants to help him conduct his appeal . |
| 21 | His herd numbered up to 200 head , including working bullocks used on the estates until local prejudice combined with shoeing difficulties encouraged him to abandon them for working horses . |
| 22 | The officers guarding him stopped him reaching the governor just in time . |
| 23 | Although he has only been rallying for one year he has already appeared on the BBC Top Gear championship series when viewers saw him win his grand touring class . |
| 24 | It can , however , no longer be assumed that that is so , and in any case it is not clear that if a clergyman wishes to stand and electors wish him to represent them the mere fact that the churches do not like the idea has anything to do with matter . |
| 25 | Why had the gods chosen him to do their work ? |
| 26 | Witnesses saw him dump it , and the Dutch authorities were able to prove a case against him , at last , when the drug was recovered . |
| 27 | Mr Keen saw John Neal , Willie Maddren , Bobbie Murdoch and Malcolm Allison come and go before work pressures forced him to leave his scouting post in the early days of Bruce Rioch . |
| 28 | His many-sided aesthetic interests led him to surround himself with first editions , Bristol glass , mother-of-pearl knick-knacks , and , above all , his notable collection of musical boxes ( later given to the Pitt Rivers Museum , Oxford ) . |
| 29 | FRANZ Klammer , one of the world 's greatest downhill skiers , has celebrated his 39th birthday in the Colorado ski resort of Copper Mountain , where the resort went to extraordinary lengths to enable him to indulge his other passion , golf . |
| 30 | His hand had reached for her and a sigh of relief at finding her had come from him and she had turned deeply into his arms to let him hold her there . |