Example sentences of "[verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is the fellow who is idle from weakness , born idle as we say , a lazy character , and there is the idle man whose idleness imprisons and tortures him , because like a caged bird he longs to fly . |
| 2 | It was rumoured he had earned the nickname by biting the navel clean out of a whore who had displeased him , and I found the rumour all too believable for he was not a pleasant man . |
| 3 | ‘ One look from those eyes when someone had displeased him and we 'd all be walking around on eggshells . |
| 4 | The fantasy desire on the part of a man , to have a woman adoring him , and to have her interested only in satisfying his desires , reinforces such desires in him . |
| 5 | Dotty was n't there to cosset him , and presently he went upstairs to the wardrobe , where Prue made him a cup of tea . |
| 6 | Goreng had dominated him with his will . |
| 7 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 8 | It was a long time since the Professor had addressed him by other than his Christian name . |
| 9 | Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph . |
| 10 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 11 | She had never yet addressed him as Sir Joseph , because somehow he did n't look like a sir ; he did n't , in her eyes , fit the title ; he was too young . |
| 12 | Until then she had demurely addressed him as ‘ Sir ’ . |
| 13 | This was the first time she had addressed him directly since take off . |
| 14 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 15 | In all his thirty-three years no single woman had ever addressed him after such a fashion , or spoken of such a delicate matter . |
| 16 | ‘ They git a chance to use this ? ’ he inquired of the man who had addressed him . |
| 17 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 18 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 19 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 20 | He had not intended to be so sharp but Cranston 's secretive arrival had unnerved him . |
| 21 | Great Britain skipper Garry Schofield is still out with a hamstring injury and Kiwi Mercer joins him with a damaged ankle . |
| 22 | GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast . |
| 23 | The Iggy-mimicking singer , having removed his trousers , is prancing around in red underpants as Beast joins him for a rap style duet . |
| 24 | A female joins him . |
| 25 | ( ROS joins him . |
| 26 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 27 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 28 | ‘ Another requirement is firefighting and first aid so my BP training has come in handy , ’ added Robin , whose wife , Denise , now joins him at the track — as a flag marshal . |
| 29 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 30 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |