Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight . |
| 2 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
| 3 | I had asked the plumber to come and had reminded him several times and no doubt he would come in the end . |
| 4 | Doyle , he suspected , would have respected him more if he had occasionally been less accommodating . |
| 5 | These won him some critical praise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | yes oh yes , could do that , I 've let him some out though when you see him at the back |
| 8 | I 've , you know , I feel I 've trusted him all my life you know , an now I find myself in this situation . |
| 9 | His intense and unpredictable moods have earned him many enemies throughout the Empire . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Also , MacQuillan 's face was well known and it was inevitable that someone had noticed him that lunchtime . |
| 14 | They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same . |
| 15 | But I know you have never really rated him that highly . |
| 16 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |
| 17 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 18 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 19 | Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election . |
| 20 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 21 | Of course if Adam had invited his parents to make themselves at home at Wyvis Hall , use it as a hotel , while he was away , they would have lent him any amount , but that was the last thing Adam would have done . |
| 22 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |
| 23 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 24 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 25 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |
| 26 | She has made him more of an Expressionist than he really was but she has realised an essential truth : that Heartbreak House is a deeply poetic play about the death of liberal hopes and the cracking-apart of a civilisation . |
| 27 | La , like I 've done today I 've made him another jelly in it . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've made him these . ’ |
| 29 | She had made him some breakfast about 7.30 . |
| 30 | She had hardly seen him all day . |