Example sentences of "him [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dogs ' descendants were still with him , though rheumatism made it difficult for him to go scrambling over the fields at night with the powerful torch to blind the rabbits . |
| 2 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 3 | Pay for him to go to rehab . |
| 4 | And I convinced him to go to nurse , that 's why he was so long . |
| 5 | ‘ She knows we 're anxious to see him , and does n't expect him to go rushing off to see her the minute he arrives . ’ |
| 6 | He was playing alone near his home when he was approached by the boys who wanted him to go shoplifting . |
| 7 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 8 | Told him to go to grey though , cos grey wo n't date , green will . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 10 | McNally alleged he was the victim of an unprovoked blow to the face which caused him to fall hitting his head on the floor . |
| 11 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 12 | She waited for him to continue speaking , but he simply studied her with a detached speculation that did nothing to soothe her ragged nerves . |
| 13 | This encourages him to continue unwinding his thread . |
| 14 | In 1986 , it was provided that an applicant should not be treated as having accommodation unless it was such that it would be reasonable for him to continue to occupy it . |
| 15 | Here it may be advisable to point out that we are not advising the rational man to be any more spontaneous than he already is , merely inviting him to continue reasoning about means , ends and principles as before , with his mind at rest about that little puzzle about passing from ‘ is ’ to ‘ ought ’ . |
| 16 | Gable refused to work further and Metro 's boy-wonder Irving Thalberg had to fly out to the location at Catalina to calm Gable down and persuade him to continue filming . |
| 17 | Perhaps his former master will allow him to continue to read his papers ; or he may be permitted to read the papers of another in his own chambers with whom he is on friendly terms . |
| 18 | Shall I to him make know as yet my change and give him to partake full happiness with me ? |
| 19 | It was now just light enough on the roof for him to see to load his pistols . |
| 20 | ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ? |
| 21 | Whoever killed him got rid of his own clothes and put them on the body afterwards . ’ |
| 22 | Merymose 's story had made him want to lose himself . |
| 23 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 24 | Anxiety makes him want to pee . |
| 25 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 26 | Her scarlet and green plaid outfit made him want to avert his eyes . |
| 27 | This , surely , would inflame Harry and make him want to make love to her . |
| 28 | Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy , floury middles made him want to throw up . |
| 29 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 30 | Naught 's happened as 'ud make him want to help any white folk . ’ |