Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made it easier for Sarah to see him . |
| 2 | He had known this district all his life , had come back to it as a young police detective for his first major case , and its vitality and capacity for change amazed him . |
| 3 | I spect he was pretty angry about t tell him I was living at the house with Marie . |
| 4 | It would be hard now for Ferguson to leave him out . |
| 5 | Could he use his influence with the Secretary of State for Defence to persuade him to hand over the Ministry of Defence buildings so that the money that the Scottish Office has allocated is not used to pay for them ? |
| 6 | There was none of the carelessness with which he usually waited for Twomey to bring him his glass . |
| 7 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 8 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 9 | for Roger to release him . |
| 10 | If he is taken to court , detectives can apply for permission to question him for a further 24 hours . |
| 11 | But to his unfortunate son and daughter ( William Armstrong and Margo Gunn ) he seems to ‘ make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo ’ as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain . |
| 12 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |
| 13 | And she went off to look for Moominpappa to ask him to put up two more beds — very , very small ones . |
| 14 | So the butcher took no more meat from L who brought an action against the union officials for conspiracy to injure him . |
| 15 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 16 | A crash during practice shook him up and badly damaged his car . |
| 17 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 18 | He sent for Eleanor to join him in Normandy and when she arrived , a message went to Richard , requiring him to surrender Aquitaine to his mother , the lawful duchess . |
| 19 | In surprise , I searched for words to thank him but was forestalled by the telephone ringing . |
| 20 | Information about a person 's private and personal affairs may be of a nature which shows him up in a favourable light and would by no means expose him to criticism . |
| 21 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 22 | But Hendry had quickly noticed that security was being beefed up , with police mingling with crowds at the Rothmans Grand Prix in Reading and the UK Championship in Preston after threats to shoot him at the table . |
| 23 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 24 | At the most he could try to plead some implied term into the contract that the goods would last for a reasonable time after delivery to allow him a reasonable period of trouble-free use . |
| 25 | Sherie intends to take Neil on holiday after Christmas to help him over his ordeal — after she has bought him the mountain bike he has set his heart on . |
| 26 | Almost immediately Philip , realising what an opportunity such an appeal for help gave him , declared that he would make no lasting settlement with England unless the Scots were included in it . |
| 27 | Hoomey was not anxious for Nails to accompany him , but Nails fell in beside him , slouching along with his hands in his pockets , his face sullen . |
| 28 | Now he is appealing for sponsorship to help him meet his expenses . |
| 29 | He asked me for £100,000 to help him pay legal fees . |
| 30 | Modigliani 's penetrating artistic judgement and his talent for graphology made him ‘ a sort of magician ’ . |