Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
2 | A few weeks later I met him in a wild part of Laggan . |
3 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
4 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
5 | I followed him into a small room . |
6 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
7 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
8 | ‘ I could n't believe he drugged me because I saw him as a caring person , he had got me into his confidence . |
9 | I took him to a nearby café . |
10 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
11 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
12 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
13 | There I had him as a charming , affectionate colleague of mature judgment . |
14 | I greeted him in a confused manner , unable to believe my eyes . |
15 | I chivvied him into a quick shower . |
16 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
17 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
18 | Mr Multhrop bustled forward , but someone forestalled him with a glad cry . |
19 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
20 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
21 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
22 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
23 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
24 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
25 | It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him , which warned him of a new impending danger . |
26 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
27 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
28 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |
29 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
30 | Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp . |