Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [to-vb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 2 | " I am the sentry who is never relieved " , he said at the opening of new rooms at the Military Museum in Madrid on 7 March 1946 , conveniently overlooking the fact that several unavailing attempts had been made to relieve him since 1939 . |
| 3 | None of these were things that had been known to occupy him on other mornings . |
| 4 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 5 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |