Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint . |
| 2 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 3 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 4 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 5 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know what he does but I 've seen him around this area . |
| 7 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 8 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 9 | In a letter to Charles Empson , the Newcastle bookseller , dated 1 October 1831 , when he was eight parts into the Parrots , and Gould , who had overtaken him by this time , was already ten parts into his own publication , Lear complains : |