Example sentences of "with the [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often enough , restrictions are imposed in terrorem so as to discourage the more blatant activities of the outgoing partner but with the realisation that to hold him to the letter of the restraint might well be impracticable . |
| 2 | But alongside it he felt a deep disillusion with the actuality that confronted him , and a growing restlessness . |
| 3 | Then he hit the old man violently with the stick and knocked him to the ground . |
| 4 | ‘ Mr Hyde hit the old man violently with the stick and knocked him to the ground . ’ |
| 5 | A volunteer normally offers to spend two or three hours per week as a companion to a former patient and may go out with the person or help him with specific tasks . |
| 6 | So you sit down with The Hook and ask him about what it was like in the '60s in London , when he was lionised by Van Morrison , The Animals , Peter Green and all the gut-bucket R&B bands , but he just laughs and says it was fun . |
| 7 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 8 | Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters . |
| 9 | He was a spare , grizzled man , who limped with the gout that made him ill-tempered , so unlike the dandified figure of Lord Dacre 's vague memory that he felt wholly disorientated in his presence . |
| 10 | Kendall will come under increased pressure if he loses this fourth round replay and he is not prepared to keep faith with the players that failed him at Bramall Lane . |
| 11 | ‘ I must pay tribute to them for both Dominic Quinn from Banbridge and John Bailie from Lurgan told me to take my time with the horse and bring him back only when I felt it was right to do so . |
| 12 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 13 | In November 1991 , senior partner Ian Brindle wrote a letter to Senator Kerry offering to cooperate with the investigation and inviting him to London . |
| 14 | There was n't too much to tell , and after Rutherford had finished he would leave the American in the room with the file and let him gut it for himself . |
| 15 | ‘ Which girl is bad ? ’ asked Nour , his hair dark gold from the wetting of the shower , and I felt I would rather swim in the pool with the crocodiles than tell him about the girl like a cat . |
| 16 | Irina had been brisk when she called with the news and told him to telephone Rakovsky at his hotel . |
| 17 | Send a man into the field only half-armed with the facts and expect him to do a professional job . |
| 18 | Alan dabbed hurriedly at him with the towel and picked him up . |
| 19 | I want you to get in touch with the Mayor and tell him I need to have the Council offices opened up . |
| 20 | He altered that to , ‘ Can you put the light out , dear ? ’ when she bashed him with the book and asked him to repeat what he had said . |
| 21 | The person in charge of product development decided to carry out all the modifications simultaneously ( although not forced to by LIFESPAN ) , made a senior programmer the user associated with the DCs and instructed him to activate the DCs on the main package and set to work . |
| 22 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 23 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 24 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 25 | She looked at him reflectively , realising it would give her more time to cope with the task that concerned him . |
| 26 | On that Tuesday morning my mother came with the doctor and took him to a spare bedroom , leaving the door ajar . |
| 27 | But Patsy decided she needed a hand with the unpacking and phoned him from the car on the way home . |
| 28 | It was the Lucy Ghosts who supplied him with the cash that helped him build his empire . ’ |