Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also allowed that the used-car business had failed to keep him in the style to which he had grown accustomed and rose to the prospect of a lucrative drug deal like a shark to a bucket of entrails . |
| 2 | It was believed that the latter group had agreed to support him in return for the promise of positions on congressional committees . |
| 3 | His father had promised to drive him to the meeting and watch him get the award . |
| 4 | For a while he thought he must be dying , that his nanny had managed to poison him after all . |
| 5 | Jacob now only vaguely remembered childhood days when his grandfather had loved bouncing him on his knee until the boy 's tiny yarmulkah almost slid down over his eyes , while chanting ‘ Yankeleh , Yankeleh , geb tzu zein zeide a bonkeleh . ’ |
| 6 | Before he had finished he had become manager 's clerk at the Newcastle branch and the bank had offered to sponsor him at university . |
| 7 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 8 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 9 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 10 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |