Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 2 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 3 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 4 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 5 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 7 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 8 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 9 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 10 | He obstructed collection of ship money in 1638 and Poole returned him to both 1640 Parliaments . |
| 11 | Whitelegge 's brother-in-law Victor Horsley [ q.v. ] served on the commission , and Whitelegge supplied him with pathological specimens from rabid dogs caught around Nottingham . |
| 12 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 13 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 14 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 15 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 16 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 17 | ‘ He is that kind of Dharjee , ’ the head had said , when Robert asked him about this . |
| 18 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 19 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |