Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight . |
| 2 | His ecclesiastical superiors had deemed him unfit to be a priest . |
| 3 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
| 4 | That the mestizo kept his voice down was proof to Trent that the little man , lying , had reported him dead . |
| 5 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 6 | Doyle , he suspected , would have respected him more if he had occasionally been less accommodating . |
| 7 | His good looks and twinkling eyes may have won him female fans , but his 6ft 2½in frame and his alleged affair with Gennifer Flowers also firmly marked him out as one of the boys . |
| 8 | Colin 's conservativism and steady timing had won him second place . |
| 9 | These won him some critical praise . |
| 10 | Now he has decamped to Hollywood , where his blandly commercial approach and hit track record has won him this prestigious assignment , a high-concept , low-intelligence star vehicle . |
| 11 | yes oh yes , could do that , I 've let him some out though when you see him at the back |
| 12 | His defence was that of self-defence ; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first . |
| 13 | He said Mr Hawthorne had attacked him first , striking him with the crowbar on the hand . |
| 14 | I 've , you know , I feel I 've trusted him all my life you know , an now I find myself in this situation . |
| 15 | She 'd caught him off-guard again , because this was n't what he was expecting . |
| 16 | She had then wished him good luck with the sale of his book and had quietly shut the door in his face . |
| 17 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 18 | His baggy rambles about his day-to-day , metropolitan life , and his energetic use of his body in his joke-telling ( he calls it ‘ physicalising ’ , but then he did drama at university ) has earned him two appearances on Tonight With Jonathan Ross , about a million bookings per week on the London circuit , and a place in the hearts of audiences and promoters . |
| 19 | His intense and unpredictable moods have earned him many enemies throughout the Empire . |
| 20 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 21 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 22 | He can not see why cash which has earned him monthly interest running into five figures should be squandered for the sake of a perceived way of life that is now beset by escalating economic and political pressure . |
| 23 | It was evident to Theda that Benedict 's father could find no favour in Mrs Alderley 's eyes , but she could herself perceive some echo of his father 's faults in Benedict — of temper , she recalled with a tightening of the lips , and Lady Lavinia had certainly considered him idle and spendthrift . |
| 24 | I was not sensitive enough to realize that it was all my fault , and that if I had n't considered him common , he would n't have been so clumsy . |
| 25 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 26 | Also , MacQuillan 's face was well known and it was inevitable that someone had noticed him that lunchtime . |
| 27 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 28 | But I know you have never really rated him that highly . |
| 29 | Donar began the final the under dog — Wilkinson had defeated him three weeks in a row with relative ease . |
| 30 | He was n't married ; Charlie knew he was n't married ; knew moreover that his steady had chucked him two weeks before . |