Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 2 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 3 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 4 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 5 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 6 | The internal structures and emotional attitudes of the party at this time coincided exactly with his own mental state , and provided him with intellectual strength and emotional security . |
| 7 | A letter from Mary Evans , possibly written at George Coleridge 's suggestion , begged him to give up his plans for emigration , and addressed him with painful tenderness as ‘ her best-beloved Brother ’ . |
| 8 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 9 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 10 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 11 | He also allowed Salan to remain in sole possession of military and civilian authority , and treated him with ostentatious respect and cordiality . |
| 12 | Experts say the house windows ‘ cushioned ’ the impact and saved him from instant death . |
| 13 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 14 | Part of the cuff was visible and reminded him of Middy sleeping under the quilt . |
| 15 | A rank , fetid odour clogged his nostrils and reminded him of bad meat . |
| 16 | OK , we 'll flush him and put him on forced diuresis . |
| 17 | It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water . |
| 18 | He went up to the Palestinian and shot him at close range , the army said . |