Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 32 | Ruth interrupted him with an embittered laugh . |
| 33 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 34 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 35 | The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep . |
| 36 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 37 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 38 | As the child subjected him to a solemn , no-nonsense appraisal , Ashley 's heart began to hammer behind her ribs . |
| 39 | A ragged laugh escaped him at the startled look in her eyes . |
| 40 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 41 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 42 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 43 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 44 | Again , Brian Harley hit a less-than-perfect drive , but his two-iron across the angle of the dogleg put him on the front edge of the green . |
| 45 | Communist party orthodoxy presented him with a unique opportunity to voice his frustration and anger . |
| 46 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 47 | Wheeler motioned him to an easy chair and made to put away the handsome leatherbound notebook in which he had been writing . |
| 48 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 49 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 50 | The rye hid him from the French rankers , and only those officers on horseback could see the Rifleman over the tall crop . |
| 51 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 52 | ‘ Tina , darling , perhaps it 's time — ’ Lucenzo swore as Katarina interrupted him with a heart-rending wail . |
| 53 | His grandson Robert succeeded him in a bare inheritance , due to provisions made in lands and goods for the children of the third marriage . |
| 54 | This was particularly the case where the occupational community provided him with a rural counter-culture that enabled class antagonisms to be sustained , albeit in a hidden form . |
| 55 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 56 | HEROL Graham 's reign as British middleweight champion ended last night as Bradford 's Frank Grant blasted him to a ninth-round defeat at Elland Road , Leeds . |
| 57 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 58 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 59 | President Dawda Jawara pardoned 35 prisoners in an amnesty allowed him by the Gambian Constitution , to mark the 26th anniversary of independence on Feb. 18 . |
| 60 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |