Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 2 | In 1844 William Makepeace Thackeray managed to get P & O to give him a free passage on a voyage to Athens , Constantinople , Jerusalem and Cairo and earned money by writing about the trip afterwards . |
| 3 | Apparently she often approached him with a picture book or toy to engage him in play with her . |
| 4 | He turned to stare at Cadfael , braced and quivering , unsure whether this was friend or enemy facing him . |
| 5 | The instructions with this recipe which came from an old horseman 's notebook were : Set this mixture by the wind ; that is , the horseman was advised to stand in the wind so that as soon as the colt or horse scented him he would advance towards him . |
| 6 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 7 | Well he was just a slaughterman then he always used to try and have Frank , another one of our butcher boys , or David or Frank to help him . |
| 8 | He bored easily and though he loved beautiful women of all dimensions and aspects , he had rarely bothered to see them twice if there was not some fire of the spirit or intelligence to intrigue him . |
| 9 | Mayer was trying to console Gilbert on the day of what should have been his wedding to Garbo , but when the bride failed to appear the forsaken groom fled to the men 's room where Mayer found him crying . |
| 10 | In the absence of his brother officers , he seldom allowed mere laws or conventions to fetter him . |
| 11 | Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) . |
| 12 | He remained at home where Mary nursed him until he died fifteen months later . |
| 13 | His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've got to get rid of this man before Sister or Robins finds him here . |
| 15 | He showed him into the living room where Sammy greeted him , wagging his tail . |
| 16 | Dotty was n't there to cosset him , and presently he went upstairs to the wardrobe , where Prue made him a cup of tea . |
| 17 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 18 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 19 | Gandalf rejects that proposal with particular violence , and at all times discussion of odds or probabilities turns him hard and obstinate : ‘ Still , ’ he said , standing suddenly up and sticking out his chin , while his beard went stiff and straight like bristling wire , ‘ we must keep up our courage . |
| 20 | Either Jamie Baird was particularly close to Puddephat , or Puddephat wanted him to be . |
| 21 | Had the hoaxer or murderer shown him a pattern which he ought to study to find the sender 's intention and ultimately his identity ? |
| 22 | Mithras was said to have been born in a cave or a grotto , where shepherds attended him and regaled him with gifts . |
| 23 | Wayne told Pilar , ‘ The son-of-a-bitch ca n't make a good movie without his father or Bogart to carry him . ’ |
| 24 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 25 | I think that Gary rang him up and said he was going to back to work , there 's only people starting work he 's giving some people some work . |
| 26 | The Pauline Annalist reported a rumour that Arundel confessed to having plotted the death of the queen , but it is more likely that Mortimer saw him as a territorial rival in the Marches of Wales , where he had held the lordship of Chirk since the confiscations after Boroughbridge . |
| 27 | The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT . |
| 28 | He made a grunting noise just to be sure that Gurder heard him . |
| 29 | Northumbrian annals record that Offa put him to flight ( perhaps with Hwiccian help ) and took the Mercian kingship . |
| 30 | He had no doubt now that Madeleine loved him , but would Sir Philip consider their shared love sufficient grounds for them to marry ? |