Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 2 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 3 | Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt . |
| 4 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 5 | Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past . |
| 6 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 7 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 8 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 9 | But he blamed Graveney for the furore : ‘ It was not the ICC who put him in this position but Tom himself . |
| 10 | With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 11 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |