Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [conj] [vb past] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened my eyes and gave him a puzzled look . |
| 2 | Eventually I fell on my knees and called him a fucking bastard , and he just laughed . |
| 3 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 4 | She touched her fingers to her lips and blew him a kiss , laughing huskily . |
| 5 | He stared back and , blushing with confusion , she rose to her feet and gave him a little bob . |
| 6 | ‘ Thank you , that was very good of you , ’ she murmured politely , but , feeling intimidated suddenly — or was that her guilty conscience again at work , she got to her feet and handed him the proof that she was who she said she was . |
| 7 | As he passed her , Celia Hooper raised her head and gave him a look of steady encouragement . |
| 8 | She raised her head and threw him a cold look . |
| 9 | And it was this ability to get straight to the point and to turn conventional wisdom on its head that earned him the respect of so many staff and others with whom he regularly had to confront thorny questions of Amnesty strategy and its relations with governments . |
| 10 | They took him to their rooms and gave him a glass of vodka or slivović and teased him . |
| 11 | Katja Müller blinked back her tears and shot him an angry glance . |
| 12 | Niall arrived home on leave to find she 'd packed her bags and left him a note . |
| 13 | She sat down opposite him and propped her chin on her hands and gave him the look of limpid honesty at which she was particularly gifted . |
| 14 | There was something raw about him ; his body sweated to its essence , his face betraying a hunger behind its symmetry that lent him a bedevilled look . |
| 15 | ‘ Although one assumes David only crossed the border because his niece had been cheated of her crown and gave him no peace until he avenged her , haranguing him with letter after letter . |
| 16 | After she contacted her boyfriend and told him the news , they immediately headed back to Leeds . |
| 17 | When Mr Major ran for party leader , the terrier-like figure of Mrs Shephard joined his campaign team early on , rounded up his support and delivered him a victory which he was swift to reward with the post of Minister of State in the Treasury . |
| 18 | He looked at the Substitute who stuck the cigar between his teeth and handed him the sheet of paper saying : |
| 19 | But it was n't his deeds that made him a Christian , it was his trust in Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | It merely broke his fall and carted him a couple of miles up the road . |
| 21 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 22 | But his bulk , along with his broad , malleable face , was virtually his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in the finest bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 23 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 24 | When he reached twelve his father cut short his education and procured him a naval cadetship in March 1800 . |
| 25 | His extreme empathy coloured his behaviour and made him a heady , if unpredictable companion . |
| 26 | Uncle Mick reached across his wife and gave him a heavy slap on the knee . |
| 27 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 28 | But then there came an event which changed his life and made him a very unusual engineer indeed . |
| 29 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 30 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |