Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I politely asked him not to bully me but that infuriated him . |
| 2 | There was one kid , however , who did n't move back as far as the rest of his row , so I politely asked him to get in line . |
| 3 | Benjamin politely asked him to wait . |
| 4 | I waited and waited for him at the points and eventually met him about three or four o'clock in the morning for the first time . |
| 5 | Reid continued to leave him out and eventually sold him to Chelsea . |
| 6 | Lucille rather envied him , wishing that she could marry Sharpe . |
| 7 | Worse still , an injury kept Sure Sharp idle for the rest of his second season and it was only last year that Hills eventually got him back into action . |
| 8 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 9 | The thread eventually led him out once more to safety . |
| 10 | Dorchester may have been an extreme case , but throughout England , there were hard-working , anxious , godly folk whose rage with their king eventually led him to the scaffold at Whitehall . |
| 11 | He fought with everything he had — his helmet , his raincoat , his truncheon , his kicks , rubble from the ground ; he even used the van to shield himself from the frenzied attack which relentlessly beat him back . |
| 12 | The thing is , ’ — I drew a deep breath and came out with it — ‘ well — it 's just that politics rather bore him . ’ |
| 13 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't , ’ she said , and laughingly stopped him . |
| 15 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 16 | Picking her way through the guests , she eventually found him talking to Edward , but when he saw her approaching he left his host and came to meet her . |
| 17 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 18 | But , it was said , he took him to his flat and indecently assaulted him while two other men looked on . |
| 19 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 20 | Mr Clay went on to tell of his visits to a bone-setter , who successfully healed him after an accident . |
| 21 | The night before , alone and drunk , he turned the Harley the wrong way on to busy St Peter Street downtown and rode awhile through oncoming traffic until a policeman mercifully stopped him . |
| 22 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 23 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 24 | Natural aptitude and a career in radio , film and television had helped him become an outstanding communicator — a strength chat not only made him a formidable campaigner , but also equipped him for the business of government in the television age . |
| 25 | Being spurned by Malcolm McLaren only made him want the group more . |
| 26 | In her heart , Beth sensed that he knew the way of things , and this only made him all the more determined to have a son of his own . |
| 27 | He went from her now , with that familiar slight limping stride that only made him more attractive . |
| 28 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 29 | The thought of this not only made him feel uneasy , but embarrassed . |
| 30 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |