Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rare combination of mechanical and drawing skills enabled him to find work quickly , soon becoming works manager at Bramahs , and by 1815 he was chief draughtsman at Maudslay , Sons & Field . |
| 2 | The mestizo looked up to see Trent watching him . |
| 3 | It was not until Lady Diana Spencer was formally engaged to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales that she was given permission to call him ‘ Charles ’ . |
| 4 | Then some lads from the Cameron Highlanders were given permission to bury him . |
| 5 | They were having trouble with the close-up , until DiCillo finally asked Brad to give him ‘ a deer caught in a car 's headlights ’ . |
| 6 | Peter was a pianist , had a job as a pianist , and always seemed to have money , which made Cecilia see him as a potentially good husband . |
| 7 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 8 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 9 | You know there was a brother of the Order who so contrived her departure and asked Aldhelm to help him . |
| 10 | He caught the wide , levelled eyes watching him with the first faint shadow of doubt and disquiet , almost distaste , and laughed shortly . |
| 11 | He asked Ken to walk him along the Rue Dante . |
| 12 | Once home , Brian got a job as a market gardener and asked Jean to marry him . |
| 13 | Holberg asked Marie to take him across the water and he left a note about that meeting in his eighty-seventh Epistle . |
| 14 | Mr Hutchinson , who said wallabies would be able to live in the wild in Britain on their diet of grass and fruit , appealed to anyone seeing Wally to call him on 0207521133 . |
| 15 | In 1915 Modigliani asked Lipchitz to introduce him to the small group of Jewish artists living in La Ruche , the beehive-shaped building with small studios in Le Passage Dantzig . |
| 16 | Raven did not want Ramsey to succeed him . |
| 17 | Without Ramsey 's knowledge , Fisher came to the decision that he could not want Ramsey to succeed him , for reasons given above . |
| 18 | Beth stood before him now , a dignified creature , her slim shapely figure taut with anger , her wild brown hair loose to her shoulders , and her dark flashing eyes daring him . |
| 19 | She batted her lashes , laughed at Calder 's jokes , found reasons to touch him . |
| 20 | Thank goodness he has Cora-Beth to comfort him . |
| 21 | Tug found it repulsive , but he had not the energy to resist and he let Doyle lead him upstairs as a father leads a child . |
| 22 | However , where any person holds proxies requiring him to vote for the appointment of himself as trustee , he may use those proxies and vote accordingly ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 23 | After losing power and suffering a humiliating defeat in the 1988 elections , he had little more than a spoiling role , thwarting attempts to dislodge him from the presidency of the Pakistan Moslem League , Pakistan 's oldest political party . |
| 24 | So Schaffer sat with a stack of paperback books from Hamilton 's corner rack , and occasionally tried to catch Hennessy to pump him for information . |
| 25 | Mum followed them and I too decided to find Frankie to tell him the news after I had cleared away the crocks . |
| 26 | Hunger striker by the pub philosopher who wants Gorbachev to have him returned to Czechoslovakia . |
| 27 | Searelle invited artistes to contact him by first writing to John , who thus became responsible for their standards . |
| 28 | Making the best of the situation , Arden-Clarke invited Nkrumah to meet him and submit his list of names for the majority of the Executive Council who would now become Ministers . |
| 29 | Gassendi had suggested that it shows improper pride for a person who has feet to take him where he wants to go to ‘ yearn to fly like the birds ’ . |
| 30 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |