Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 2 | We had n't heard or seen him for a while so my father suggested I go round and check I 'm really horrified . |
| 3 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 4 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 5 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 6 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 7 | It might be supposed that to injure him by getting deeply into his debt sufficed to satisfy any unfriendly feelings they might entertain towards him . |
| 8 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 9 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |
| 10 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 11 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 12 | And in what might have proved a momentous extension of this diplomatic sequence , it was at Hendaye that in 1940 , after the fall of France , Hitler met Franco , to try and talk him into joining in the war on the German side against the British . |
| 13 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 14 | I felt I ought to try and phone him at home to tip him off — if I got the chance . |
| 15 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 16 | And here he held Bible meetings that convinced Vicky , and over thirty others , to come and join him in Waco . |
| 17 | The head had asked the educational psychologist to come and assess him with a view to producing a formal Statement of Special Educational Needs . |
| 18 | He would send his plane , or travel tickets , for her to come and see him at shows , for parties and at Thanksgiving celebrations . |
| 19 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 20 | In John 6:15 , there is a curious statement , that ‘ Jesus , who could see why they were about to come and take him by force and make him king , escaped back to the hills by himself . ’ |
| 21 | Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it . |
| 22 | But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps . |
| 23 | The word ‘ mithra ’ was also used to describe a friend , and this god was thought to be a true friend of man , protecting and warming him in life and death . |
| 24 | According to Antony the Devil came to tempt and torture him in a variety of fantastical forms from lascivious women to wild beasts . |
| 25 | Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit . |
| 26 | His face moved continually , different expressions rippling and flowing across it as if he really were a sea creature , moved and swayed by the changing tide and currents in water , in continual motion — flickering from smile to grimace to pain to peace , eyelids half rising to reveal a sea-shell sightless crescent of pearly blue-white , lips parting then closing , breaths shuddering and shivering him as if air were too strong and coarse a medium . |
| 27 | She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm . |
| 28 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 29 | Emily ? … laughing and teasing him about deserving a white feather … ? |
| 30 | And , and did but I do n't know whether to take him on holiday Doctor . |