Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes to sleep with the feeling that things are going to go right for him in this town . |
| 2 | It was a demoralised Don Peters who drove away from The London Hilton and the all-American farewell party that had been laid on for him by Clancy McGillicuddy . |
| 3 | The tradition was carried on after him by his son , Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823–86 ) , and Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 — 1921 ) . |
| 4 | Silverstein called Douglas , who had already read the script , and to Silverstein 's tremendous relief , Kirk said that the part was n't big enough for him as a star , and not small enough for a cameo . |
| 5 | Therefore he had to bribe Bull O'Malley , but the bribe had to be big enough and tempting enough for him to be unable to resist it . |
| 6 | The first was an ace , the second opened up in court well enough for him to steam in and put away a brilliant backhand volley . |
| 7 | A middle peasant is somebody who is more or less entirely self sufficient , he does n't hire any labour but nor does he have to work for anybody else , his plot is big enough for him to be able to support himself and his family . |
| 8 | ‘ Once is enough for him to be of use . |
| 9 | Where the landlord has redevelopment plans for the property in question , the term of the lease should be short enough for him to be able to recover possession in time to redevelop . |
| 10 | He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs . |
| 11 | No collection of his own papers survives , nor is there much about him in the letters of others . |
| 12 | But better for him to be in a lavatory somewhere than for him to be sick on the programme ! |
| 13 | Even if there might n't be much for him in these parts , be it without strife that little would have God 's blessing on it . |
| 14 | Von Stein had fallen to his knees , and stared dazedly about him at the ruined lab . |
| 15 | We have waited so long for him to be born , and such fine promises rest on his shoulders . |
| 16 | Arsenal boss George Graham is annoyed that it took so long for him to be told about Limpar 's current ankle injury . |
| 17 | Arrived at the office , the publisher sent down for him by Laurence , the boy with spots . |
| 18 | His advance had been laid down for him in definite terms , and he held to it , but taking his own precautions along the way . |
| 19 | Oliver , being left to himself in the undertaker 's shop , set the lamp down on a workman 's bench , and gazed timidly about him with a feeling of awe and dread , which many people a good deal older than he will be at no loss to understand . |
| 20 | Another objective might be to help dissipate a patient 's emotions sufficiently for him to be able to contemplate constructive approaches to tackling his problems . |
| 21 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 22 | I 've rather doubt that he might not be and , and then Bert er , has very kindly said that he would erm , stand in for him to second this resolution . |
| 23 | A rescue team went in for him at 12.30 p.m. on Saturday , 9th September , and returned to a fresh air base in Bank Mine at 2.45 p.m . |
| 24 | He thought with envy of the young locum doctor standing in for him at home , seeing his patients at this very moment , and then he thought of his ex-wife , and his ex-cat , which used to sleep on their bed , and then with interest and longing of flukes , the flukes of absorption that can at least put the unforgettable at some merciful remove . |
| 25 | Or I do n't think so anyhow , we 'd 've nailed it together for him for nothing and |
| 26 | The pilgrims went in after him in groups of five or six at a time . |
| 27 | The teenage snakes tumble , somersault and skid down after him like over-zealous baby ducks in ardent pursuit of a mother figure . |
| 28 | There was once in the olden days a giant who lived on Penhill who had all below him in the dale in his thrall . |
| 29 | She sat down opposite him at the kitchen table and fixed him with the kind of look that usually preceded a full eighteen-round contest . |
| 30 | I understand that they think very highly of him at Sotheby 's . ’ |