Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 2 | Any one of them would have promoted him instantly into mainstream Hollywood and even some of his friends thought he was mad . |
| 3 | Chase turned out to be a tuba player , of all things , though I would have put him down as backing vocals for The Communards on appearances alone . |
| 4 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 5 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 6 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
| 7 | Years of hard training , injuries and arduous touring have taken him ahead of British brothers Martin and Graham Bell , but have brought him little remuneration so far . |