Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career . |
| 2 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 3 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 4 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 5 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 6 | One way and another , Attlee looks better with every passing year — a kind of benevolent public school master , whose sense of duty and justice raised him above the sectional partisanship of class or party . |
| 7 | A long right arm as hard as steel took him about the body , prisoning his left arm above the elbow , and the grazed breast leaned violently over him and broke his balance . |