Example sentences of "avoid [v-ing] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 2 | It was ‘ Gunga ’ the driver of the water truck , he hated the nickname , Gunga Din of cinema fame , and everyone was careful to avoid addressing him as anything other than just ‘ George ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ I shall just try to avoid meeting him , ’ Lord John said helplessly . |
| 4 | If he did , was Henry going to be able to avoid serving him with any ? |
| 5 | He was nobody 's fool , but Fowler had been told to avoid scaring him . |
| 6 | When they spoke she did her best to avoid calling him anything . |
| 7 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 8 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 9 | Dominic 's demeanour was unchanged , but Meryl found it hard to avoid treating him coolly . |
| 10 | So I had to go along with it , to avoid making him suspicious ’ . |
| 11 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 12 | I shoved forward , but not in time to avoid hitting him . |
| 13 | To avoid confronting him and coming to blows with him , I had skirted round these topics too long . |
| 14 | He had already noted in her favour that she did not avoid looking him full in the face as many did ; nor did she flinch or stare when she did . |
| 15 | She found the conversation embarrassing and wondered if the time had come when she could no longer avoid asking him to come and see her new house . |
| 16 | When he motioned for her to take the wooden spoon from him she did so , avoiding touching him at all costs . |
| 17 | She avoided telling him what an out-and-out swine she thought his cousin was , adding quickly , ‘ What makes you think he 's serious ? ’ |
| 18 | Tempted to hide in her room and avoid meeting him until the meal was served , she knew she must not . |