Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course I 'm missing him . ’ |
| 2 | Not mega yet , but I am such a fan I 'm pushing him high . |
| 3 | Robertson , who has spent time labouring and more recently teaching in Europe to finance his playing career , is now attached to Castle Eden and Peterlee golf club which is allowing him to concentrate on playing local professional events . |
| 4 | The third film in this three-picture deal which was to bring him ‘ more money than he thought there was in the world ’ was The Robe . |
| 5 | When Strawalde freed himself of the constraints of narrative painting he became the father of sensuous abstract art in the DDR and now , in his sixties , is finally receiving the international recognition which was denied him before the Wall came down . |
| 6 | Mr Allan told the court Say had spent a normal and happy weekend with his wife before the incident and had been given no indication she was leaving him . |
| 7 | For the skin condition we 're bathing him in Nizoral shampoo which gets rid of the fungus growth and makes the skin better and more stable . |
| 8 | He was due again and suddenly they heard that the prince himself was bringing him . |
| 9 | It would seem as though The Hobbit , for instance , the story which was to make him famous when it was published in 1937 , had existed in embryonic form as early as about 1930 . |
| 10 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 11 | What a bloody fool I was to trust him even in this . ’ |
| 12 | Behind the scenes , Sir Reginald was negotiating with political leaders about the composition of the Executive Council which was to assist him in the government of the country until elections could be held . |
| 13 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 14 | He tended to be rather naïve in his dealings with others ; outspokenly critical , to the point of rudeness , of his less gifted fellow-musicians — a trait which was to earn him many enemies ; deceitful on occasion ; and certainly arrogant , in an age when obsequiousness and servile flattery were necessary to ensure success . |
| 15 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 16 | Almost as though she had let Dr Neil down , rather than defend him , as she had meant to , by punishing a tactless fool who was hurting him . |
| 17 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
| 18 | Nicholson responded that perhaps Corey had n't seen the poetry he was showing him . |
| 19 | In a singing community of his peers he comes alive and discovers a sense of membership which is denied him elsewhere : all the more reason to embrace the slightly devilish and glamorous identity which is thrown at you by ‘ them ’ and sing along , ‘ We are the famous football hooligans ! ’ |
| 20 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 21 | In another moment she was kissing him . |
| 22 | During the final , Lendl ordered the removal of a wandering cameraman who was distracting him : a novel instance of someone chasing television away from tennis faster than the BBC . |
| 23 | In spite of her bone-weariness , all of a sudden she was facing him squarely , for she was the same height and if anything , more strongly built . |
| 24 | Burroughs employs an agent , whose job it is to keep him abreast of what 's happening in various fields of art and music — he 's 80 years old now and he lives a very secluded life in Kansas . |
| 25 | Pendero was off the day I was riding him , that 's what matters . |
| 26 | But he 's such a dork I 'm taking him off it . |
| 27 | How strange that such an excellent king should not take the chance I was offering him ! |
| 28 | But then , instead of returning to the siege of Pons , he led his army in May 1179 to the enterprise which was to establish him once and for all as an acknowledged expert in the vital art of siege warfare : the capture of Taillebourg . |
| 29 | Wearing a tidy black suit , Palance throws his carpetbag negligently into the back of Jeff Chandler 's buggy which is to take him to the reservation . |
| 30 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |