Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one player meets another he challenges him by saying , ‘ Smee ’ . |
| 2 | This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ . |
| 3 | He praises him for insisting that we free ourselves from the Idols , get rid of preconceived notions , and form our ideas on the basis of properly conducted experiments . |
| 4 | As Pip has realised that Magwitch is Estella 's father and he comforts him by telling him that his daughter is still alive and that he is in love with her . |
| 5 | Whatever , I do not find it surprising that Lacan admired Augustine , and credits him with foreshadowing psychoanalysis ( Ecrits , 20 ) . |
| 6 | Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788–1860 ) accuses him of holding that animals are mere things : ‘ Thus only for practice are we to have sympathy for animals ’ ( Regan and Singer 1976 : 125 ) . |
| 7 | Its left wing accuses him of collaborating with scandal-tainted parties , after he agreed that PDS members should join Mr Ciampi 's government . |
| 8 | Taking money when he 'd got erm he accuses him of taking a bribe when |
| 9 | The Aquino government accuses him of having stolen up to US$10bn ( £6.1bn ) from the country during his reign . |
| 10 | It keeps him from getting bored . |
| 11 | His aim is not to mock or preach but to explain one country to another , and his sense of the absurd keeps him from becoming solemn . |
| 12 | A stoic quality keeps him from talking about the problem , which is silly ; even Nicklaus discusses his back , made ancient by millions of swings and uneven leg lengths . |
| 13 | We think we should not accept ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ as a valid communication unless we allow for an answer to the question , ‘ How does he know ? ’ or ‘ What observation justifies him in saying that ? ’ |
| 14 | Nothing now prevents him from issuing a Policy Planning Guidance Note on Green Belts in Wales . |
| 15 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 16 | This prevents him from supplying sperm to fertilize his females , but again it does nothing else . |
| 17 | It is Artegall 's required attendance at the Faerie Court which prevents him from completing the renewal of justice in Eirena 's kingdom , and it is Elizabeth , A View of the Present State of Ireland makes clear , who halted the necessary civilising action undertaken by the New English there : |
| 18 | ‘ But there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Diana 's chart , whereas I can look at Charles 's chart and say I think there is something that prevents him from making the throne . |
| 19 | Certainly , the law will not imply a term which prevents him from doing so . |
| 20 | ‘ a person who signs a document , and parts with it so that it may come into other hands , has a responsibility , that of the normal man of prudence , to take care what he signs , which , if neglected , prevents him from denying his liability under the document according to its tenor . |
| 21 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 22 | Only the suggestion that his career , once eclipsed by hers , is now vastly brighter stings him into reacting . |
| 23 | While he does the latter , his brother , whose name means " deceit " , trumps him by stealing his trousers from him , much to Travers 's amusement and Haimet 's embarrassment . |
| 24 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 25 | One suspects him of seeking equivalents in others and in nature . |
| 26 | He has a dyslexia type problem , which not only spoils the presentation and spelling of his work , but inhibits him from starting it . |
| 27 | The disadvantage of doing that to my mind is it simply prompts him into doing something . |
| 28 | A small boy laughs an unforgivable sin in such a sober and wary atmosphere , his grandad scolds him for destroying the unquiet silence which haunts the underground , he grabs the toy gun clasped in his grandson 's fist and confiscates it after letting it wave foolishly , causing several greatly disturbed heads to turn , he buries into the depths of his duffle coat pocket . |
| 29 | Contrast the following case , in which it is Mela , an Augustan jurist of uncertain leanings , who is opposed to the validity of the disposition , arguing that if the amount is unstated then the amount is zero , while Nerva , a first-century Proculian , is in favour of it ; Ulpian follows him in suggesting that the amount the testator usually gave is payable , failing which it can be determined according to status . |
| 30 | The ‘ credulous father ’ Gloucester is easily manipulated into setting a guard to catch Edgar ( King Lear , 11. i.17 ) , and Edmund , who has been ‘ sheltering ’ Edgar ( that is , keeping him locked up , where he can not confront his father ) , dupes him into fleeing , so that Gloucester can order him to be pursued and killed ( 56–63 ) . |