Example sentences of "and [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She furnished Eliot with the title and central concept of his poem , but was otherwise more important for summarizing and reminding him of other people 's ideas , such as those of E. K. Chambers speaking of literary forms encompassing ‘ fragments of forgotten cults ’ . |
| 2 | Venice and Ancona , Naples and Sicily , Florence and Bruges would watch and listen and notify him in due course of their passage , as well as of other things . |
| 3 | Its aim is to do something in the life of the person who reads it , as well as to capture his aesthetic interest and supply him with historical and theological information . |
| 4 | An eruption of hissing spluttery steam , carrying wood and metal splinters and crusty bubbles of burnt floor , violently emits from his thought-crater and covers him in gritty black rubbish , the cruel knowledge flashes through to his spine spring which , uncoiling viciously , bashes his head on the back of the seat . |
| 5 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 6 | Manucci was wary of him , fearing and disliking him in equal proportions : |
| 7 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 8 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 9 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 10 | A few says later the Shah sought assurances from the US Embassy that he was still welcome in the United States cabled Rabat to say , " we assured the Shah publicly as well as in private messages that he would be welcome in the US should he choose to go there , and that there should be bo doubt whatsoever as to our willingness to receive ( him ) and provide him with appropriate protection " . |
| 11 | It may be noticed that insensibility both to moral appeals and to appeals to one 's future interests , imprisonment within both ‘ I ’ and ‘ Now ’ , are often combined in the same person , and that the combination is widely accepted as the strongest criterion for classing him as ‘ psychopathic ’ and exempting him from moral judgment . |
| 12 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 13 | All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching the faith and correcting error , for re-setting the direction of man 's life and training him in good living . |
| 14 | She ached with sympathy for him , and if this had been Christmas , or any time in those months when she had felt they were friends , she would have pulled him into her arms and soothed him with soft hands and whispered words . |
| 15 | The ruling that there should be no prosecutions destroyed the hope that such court proceedings might uncover enough information to stir a public demand for a wider and more thorough inquiry into the background to the conspiracy to murder an innocent man and to frame him with stolen goods . |
| 16 | A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ . |
| 17 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 18 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 19 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 20 | Nazie , now of 155 Maxwell Drive , Pollokshields , and Ali , now of 2 Redhills , Lennoxtown , struck Mr McCallum , of 16 James Gray Street , Pollokshields , Glasgow , with hockey sticks and killed him in nearby Nithsdale Road on 6 August , 1991 . |
| 21 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 22 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 23 | His parents were keen on the work ethic and equipped him with impeccable manners . |
| 24 | Although his chains still held him tight , the slavers grabbed him and burnt him with searing irons . |
| 25 | Mr Singh could take him to the bus when he was on late shifts and collect him on early shifts . |
| 26 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 27 | Crouching down in order to finish dressing his back afresh , she was surprised to feel a lump come into her throat and saw him through sudden tears , making her confused and uneasy . |
| 28 | Nowadays , parental responsibility may be viewed in the same light for school attendance as for child care generally , namely : ‘ the duty to care for the child and to raise him to moral , physical and emotional health … the fundamental task of parenthood and the only justification for the authority it confers ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Bind his hands and feet , and cast him into outer darkness . ’ ’ |
| 30 | The local emphasis more often needs to be on the candidate , getting his name , face , personality and position known in the community and introducing him to key groups of people . |