Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 2 | A few weeks later the appointments committee asked him back for another interview ; only one other candidate remained on the shortlist . |
| 3 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 4 | Then murder led him inexorably — apocalyptic naturalism — to confess and accept suffering , and acceptance of suffering took him back to mere existence which is living life , neither more nor less . |
| 5 | Baldwin 's mission to Washington took him away from 27 December to 27 January . |
| 6 | Grunte put him down as 16/20 . |
| 7 | Coetzer , 6ft 4ins and nearly 16 stones , was ranked No.1 contender by the WBA and IBF until last month in Las Vegas , when Riddick Bowe stopped him in round seven . |
| 8 | PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion . |
| 9 | His stumbling gait took him off in all directions except the one he wanted to go in . |
| 10 | Intellectual reviewers took him up in left-wing papers because of his music-hall background and appreciated him in a way that made him wretched . |
| 11 | Tuathal wakened him just after four . |
| 12 | Hazel held him down with both forepaws and he grew quieter . |
| 13 | Because the captain had spoken French , Joseph thanked him haltingly in that language , then motioned towards the lower deck . |
| 14 | And when Derek emphasized , as he was determined to , that the contents of the letters supported his brother 's protests of his innocence , Golding heard him out with patient inscrutability . |
| 15 | His criticism of the prodigality of government in October 1675 was very ill-received at court , and when a pension to his son failed to secure his support , the king wrote him off among those people ‘ who will never be obliged ’ . |
| 16 | Napoleon III in his capacity as sovereign had great personal dignity as well as charm , but as an individual his knowledge of human beings and their behaviour set him apart from other European monarchs , whose more cloistered and conventional upbringing had given them a less perceptive outlook on people . |
| 17 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 18 | The American woman watched him intently for several minutes , a commotion of half-forgotten sensations stirring within her , but if he had noticed her presence he gave no sign . |
| 19 | Maureen nursed him back to reasonable health in her bedroom . |
| 20 | Oh God , he went in Sunday , Bill took him in at ten o'clock about sixteen mile here and sixteen mile back it is |
| 21 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 22 | Apparently this one and only brush with city life impressed him not at all . |
| 23 | But the kindly bishop Ascanio Piccolomini nursed him back to mental health and at length the authorities in Rome allowed him to go home , though still under house arrest . |
| 24 | Nicholls put him in after 51 minutes and he brilliantly chested the ball down before sweeping a shot past McKeown . |
| 25 | I understand that Border , 37 , was within one phone call of losing his job when umpire Steve Randell reported him along with fast bowler Merv Hughes for dissent in the first Test at Brisbane earlier this month . |
| 26 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 27 | Galliano showed two hours late , which could have ruined him , but fortunately did n't because the press loved him and his audience welcomed him back with loud approval after an absence of two seasons ( due to the lack of financial backing ) . |
| 28 | The bus landed him there at seven o'clock on a hazy morning and by lunchtime he 'd found a cheap hotel which was full of Africans in multi-coloured robes which seemed foreign enough . |
| 29 | But the young Swede 's heroic 65 ended in tears when he missed from just over a yard at the final hole , while Love sank a twisting 15 footer and Couples followed him in from 18 inches . |
| 30 | This time the hospital kept him in for several weeks and his condition deteriorated until the Sunday morning the phone rang at 6.30 am and the words ‘ We think you should come to the hospital as soon as you can . ’ |