Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lovely to meet him again when the film was made . ’ |
| 2 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 3 | Mr. Robert Hughes : If the Minister will say that , once all the companies have been sold he will publish the individual price , I at least will be willing to meet him halfway and accept that . |
| 4 | But then , instead of returning to the siege of Pons , he led his army in May 1179 to the enterprise which was to establish him once and for all as an acknowledged expert in the vital art of siege warfare : the capture of Taillebourg . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 6 | Gilbert with his horn-rimmed glasses and walrus moustache was popular in Canada , but I did not get to know him well until we later met on at least half a dozen occasions for lunch in London . |
| 7 | Ruddock 's transfer request was slapped in last Friday and Sugar is ready to sell him even though the £2 million-rated player was a huge success in his first season back at Spurs . |
| 8 | His colleague Vic Marks wrote that ‘ we willed opposition fast bowlers to bounce him so that we could witness the majesty of his hooking ’ , and there can be very few batsmen of whom that could be said . |
| 9 | It was tempting to march him home and face him with my sewing machine and its 10-point threader . |
| 10 | Again through the help of kind neighbours I was able to visit him now and again , though not as often as one would have wished . |
| 11 | The family were able to visit him once or twice a week . |
| 12 | It may be that Archbishop Jaenberht refused to consecrate him so that Offa was driven to establishing a metropolitan see at Lichfield in order to procure an archbishop who would perform the ceremony . |
| 13 | Sometimes , when the Gestapo came in search of one of our refugees , the men of the Maquis were able to conceal him here until the danger was past . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 15 | ‘ I have to be getting along now , Lee , that 's the damp man and I 'm going to leave him here while I go to visit a dear friend round the corner . |
| 16 | I tried to leave him once when he got like this . |
| 17 | His friend Chris would do nothing , of course , to undermine him deliberately but Patten has always been spoken about as a one-day leader . |
| 18 | He has told civil servants at the DTI to address him henceforth as president rather than as the traditional Secretary of State . |
| 19 | Almost any ruler other than Haile Selassie would have confirmed the sentence of death passed on him for treason by the high court , but the Emperor was content to fine him heavily and imprison him . |
| 20 | There was nothing to keep him here that could outweigh the thought of the possible conspiracies going on behind his back back home . |
| 21 | In the previous year , Central Office wished to promote Captain Edwards , the chief agent for Birmingham , to be a Central Office district agent , but they were thwarted by the Chamberlains , who wished to keep him to look after Birmingham ; Neville Chamberlain arranged to have Edwards paid enough in Birmingham to keep him there and the interests of Birmingham thus prevailed over those of the party as a whole . |
| 22 | He put himself right before every one of them , and he was so intelligent at the job that all I had to do was to ride him quietly and let him jump without fussing him . ’ |
| 23 | They all turned out to watch him go , Pen clamouring to accompany him so that he might be the first to embrace and welcome Lily 's baby . |
| 24 | She wanted to run her fingers through his hair , wanted to nuzzle her nose and chin into his neck , wanted to know the texture of his cheek and jaw , wanted to kiss him so that her lips never forgot the shape of his . |
| 25 | He pointed to his seat and urged anyone interested to contact him then and there . |
| 26 | And you wanted to hit him sometimes and ask him if he knew what he was doing . |
| 27 | He began last night and he knows I do not want to see him again until he is sober . |
| 28 | I 'll have to see him again when I do know . |
| 29 | I felt incredibly well , but he said to keep an eye on the swollen gland and to see him immediately if it grew in size . |
| 30 | She was bound to come to see him sooner or later . |