Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 2 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 3 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 4 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 5 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 7 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 8 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |
| 9 | First , I regressed him to former years and previous golfing tournaments when he had done exceedingly well , so that he was again able to savour the feeling of success and achievement . |
| 10 | So I had him for five hours , normally from 6 pm to 11 pm . ’ |
| 11 | On the absurdity of his get rich quick schemes , which involved him with shady financiers . |
| 12 | Thus he learned a ‘ street wisdom ’ which helped him through similar periods between passages at sea . |
| 13 | That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides . |
| 14 | So Suger persuaded Louis to begin the task — not completed till the reign of Philip Augustus — of extricating himself from the bonds of homage which bound him to various bishops in the realm . |
| 15 | Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know . |
| 16 | His Magic Flute for the Welsh National Opera , which introduced him to British audiences in 1979 , avoided the sort of in-jokes that Mozart 's pop entertainment often elicits ( authentically enough , as Schikaneder was a Rowan Atkinson figure ) . |
| 17 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 18 | Greenidge and Lloyd top-scored as West Indies declared at 251 for 9 , and then Holding , Roberts and Holder , restricted MCC to 197 , only Gilliat , the captain , having a substantial knock , and Amiss ducking into a bouncer which left him with four stitches in his scalp . |
| 19 | A DARLINGTON man was yesterday recovering in hospital after a Good Friday attack which left him with broken bones in his face . |
| 20 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 21 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 22 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 23 | And she scolded him for frightening children Adam , six , Louise , four , and two-year-old Carl . |
| 24 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 25 | Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting . |
| 26 | She fixed him with anxious eyes . |
| 27 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 28 | And then , pulling herself together , she told him through clenched teeth , ‘ Tim is not my lover ! ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll sign the agreement , ’ she told him in clipped tones . |
| 30 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |