Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
| 2 | Hari held out her arms and drew him close . |
| 3 | He grabbed the poor creature by the neck and drew him close , then gazed savagely across at us . |
| 4 | The blow caught him off-balance and he teetered for what seemed an age to the watchers , before falling into the rushing water with a hoarse scream . |
| 5 | They caught him unprepared , before he could blank out his mind , making him remember the last time he had heard that sort of ringing , last Sunday . |
| 6 | As he began to shout his reply , he only managed the words , ‘ Bloody tacky , ’ when , at the sound of his raised voice close to her ear , Daisy swung her head towards him and caught him full in the chest with her nose . |
| 7 | Her spittle caught him full in the face , caught him offguard . |
| 8 | It caught him full in the middle of his back , throwing him into the air before he crashed down on the cobbles . |
| 9 | She had divorced her first husband because he showed signs of becoming like her father , and now , at her second attempt , the man she had married , while not apparently planning to emulate her parent , yet found him admirable . |
| 10 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 11 | The jury found him guilty on 23 charges in a 38-count indictment . |
| 12 | The commission found him guilty , and he and a fellow director were forced to resign . |
| 13 | The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty through the preliminary hearings and trial in the King 's Bench Court , where Mr Justice Embury found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging . |
| 14 | In October a jury at Winchester Crown Court found him guilty of theft , perjury and fraudulent trading . |
| 15 | The board found him guilty of ‘ verbally abusing ’ tournament director Ann Yates and ‘ intimidating ’ referee John Street . |
| 16 | After a protracted investigation — ranging from Mr Hunt 's improper use of state aircraft for preaching tours , to his handling of political finances — a jury last week found him guilty of siphoning $100,000 from an inaugural fund into his own account . |
| 17 | ‘ The good men of the realm , great and small , rich and poor , by common assent ’ found him guilty and sentenced him to death . |
| 18 | Following repeated breaches of the orders the judge , in the contemnor 's presence , found him guilty of contempt of court and committed him to prison for eight months . |
| 19 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 20 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 21 | The appeal court , overturning this conviction , found him guilty only on what was described as the lesser charge of genocide . |
| 22 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 23 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 24 | Jones is not challenging the verdict of the FA commission , which found him guilty of bringing the game into disrepute , but he hopes for a reduction in the heaviest punishment ever imposed on an individual player . |
| 25 | The jury found him guilty on a reduced charge of assaulting the youth by knocking him to the ground . |
| 26 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 27 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 28 | The SS leadership found him useful because the Cossacks were loyal to him and he was loyal to Germany . |
| 29 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 30 | Constanza found him uncouth and a bore — that was one of the things being with Simon did to one — she broke it off and went to parties again . |