Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a dilettante artist , a protégé of John Jarndyce 's who affects a childlike gaiety and simplicity but is really a shameless sponger ; his apparent innocence of worldly concerns is sedulously fostered to relieve him of any common responsibilities . |
| 2 | She had n't planned to approach him like this . |
| 3 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 4 | You have n't yet agreed to endow him with all your worldly goods so that money is yours and yours alone . |
| 5 | He expected Caterina to be there to tell him that Rosalba absolutely refused to meet him in such compromising circumstances and considered him a blackguard and a monster even to suggest such an assignation . |