Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whom he could trust , and he needed my youth to support him at this difficult time and so , like a fool , I had believed him and flown |
| 2 | Despite this I had a lot of fun , until my mother replaced him with another pony that Brian could manage , and I gave up hunting . |
| 3 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 4 | It was the question she had been screwing up her courage to ask him for some time , but Duro pretended he had n't heard , and turned away to talk to Dom Alfonso . |
| 5 | Her indulgence left him without any need . |
| 6 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 7 | Her scorn stung him at last . |
| 8 | ‘ I know you can do it , ’ Biddy said unrelenting , and called for Nails after school every day on her motor-bike to subject him to another two-hour session on the aptly named Switchback . |
| 9 | He began proceedings against the council in the county court alleging breach of their statutory duty and seeking an injunction ordering them to fulfil their duty to provide him with suitable accommodation and damages . |
| 10 | As the fellows told the King in September 1687 , " the Electing the Bishop of Oxford " was " directly contrary to their statutes , and to their positive oaths " , and although " they were as ready to obey the K. in all things that lay in their power " , they " could not apprehend it in their power to obey him in this matter " . |
| 11 | But with his defence protecting him from any direct shots , Prudhoe steadily recovered , and he excelled himself after 69 minutes when Noel Blake powered a header goalwards from only six yards , but the indisputable player of the season somehow threw himself along his line to scramble the ball away . |
| 12 | He fell about laughing when his agent phoned him with this news . |
| 13 | I decided to follow him to his bedroom to confront him with this unacceptable behaviour . |
| 14 | His apprenticeship took him through various parts of the motor car division until the outbreak of war , when he was transferred to the aviation side to make crankshafts and camshafts for Merlin engines . |
| 15 | On the positive side , his inheritance freed him from financial constraints and so he decided to settle in England , setting up house in London at Carlton Terrace , an event which led Disraeli to write somewhat mockingly : ‘ … |
| 16 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 17 | His wife predeceased him in 1841 , leaving no children . |
| 18 | He began ‘ running down ’ to Suffolk at weekends on his own , and that Christmas he had his wife accompany him for four days , taking all the Christmas food with them . |
| 19 | In the years that followed , his career took him to many different locations and a wide variety of posts within our Department . |
| 20 | ‘ Gould has just issued a prospectus and as soon as I have one I will send it to you , announcing a work on English birds … his conceit leads him beyond common sense. , |
| 21 | It was a Smythe drill , and his father took him on some ‘ short work ’ , a piece of land where no one could see it . |
| 22 | His father coached him in Dutch , and also introduced him to theosophy . |
| 23 | Miguel was his usual self and his efficiency left him in fifth place . |
| 24 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 25 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 26 | His journey took him via Saudi , Kuwait , Iraq , Syria , Turkey , Greece , Yugoslavia [ that was ] , Austria and onwards through Europe . |
| 27 | His health prevented him from active service in World War I but from 1916 he worked in the war trade intelligence department and in Admiralty research . |
| 28 | Champion picked up his whip and waved it at his mount to encourage him over those last few yards , and Aldaniti responded gamely . |
| 29 | Wycliffe decided on a walk and his walk took him along Green Bank and down the High Street , where crumbling houses and shops were being rejuvenated or demolished , into the main street . |
| 30 | His way took him through narrow alleys , between rows of little granite cottages whose front doors opened to the street . |