Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [adv] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 2 | Indeed , sometimes killing can end a deadlock or cut short suffering , and I think that this happened in Eddie' case — he would have lived an isolated and miserable life had he not been killed , so Marco almost did him a favour . |
| 3 | The issues of repentance and forgiveness feature here also — Rodolpho , even at the last moment , is prepared to accept the blame for what Eddie has done and offers to kiss his hand , and Beatrice also offers him an earlier chance of redemption by asking him and Catherine to make friends and Catherine agrees — but Eddie refuses . |
| 4 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 5 | He was 32 , at his peak as a cricketer , but life then brought him a series of disappointments . |
| 6 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |