Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His observation of the way in which after 1942 Churchill took on the role of Roosevelt 's faithful second left him with long-lasting suspicions of Britain 's priorities . |
| 2 | Enchanted , she too watched the sweet-faced boy who was chattering excitedly while his fond father plied him with Carnival cakes . |
| 3 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 4 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 5 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 6 | Now Ebenezer Judge understood what he must have felt , as a dozen willing hands hoisted him on high , held him for an instant in mid-air , then let him down , inch by inch , until the back of his head knocked against the stone wall and the freezing water lapped over his boots . |
| 7 | Beattie 's outstanding record as a dedicated social worker stood him in good stead at the ‘ Diplock ’ tribunal and partly explained the presence of a total of twenty-four persons who came to testify on his behalf . |
| 8 | The idea that a free India would remain loyal to the British empire filled him with brilliant scorn . |
| 9 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 10 | During this period of voluntary ostracism from social contact with those around him , Mr Thesiger 's fondness for out-of-doors sports and predilection for the simple life stood him in good stead . |
| 11 | But to press into service , as though it were no more than a compendium of useful organs , the body of a servant , a friend — and a friend , at that , who died for a crime attributable to one 's own negligence — well , this moral madness placed him beyond human consideration . |
| 12 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 13 | His previous experience stood him in good stead . |
| 14 | Almost a year after his ‘ There 's Nothing Like This ’ hit single and reactivated album put him on first-name terms with the British public , Omar Lye-Kook is still based in north London , operating out of his father 's tiny Kongo Dance offices and recording down the road in Willesden . |
| 15 | It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact ! |
| 16 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 17 | Election 1992 : ‘ Red ’ stumped as Tory ladies hit him for six |
| 18 | A grateful Di rewarded him with expensive presents — including a diamond-studded tie-pin and a gold and silver alarm clock . |
| 19 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 20 | Mr Brown is parading this tacit Jackson support in an effort to draw blacks away from Mr Bill Clinton , the Democrats ' front-runner whose solid black support helped him to big victories in the South and Mid-West . |
| 21 | Her confident reply dissuaded him from further questions along this line . |
| 22 | Hoccleve ‘ s interest for us is accidental : the pressures of his mental illness pushed him into vivid personal confession in an age in which autobiography was almost always purely conventional . |
| 23 | He was a weak , cowardly man , she reflected , who wanted to be popular with everyone , yet whose deep insecurity drove him to self-righteous pomposity and chill cruelty . |
| 24 | After Labour won the 1945 election , Burke accompanied Attlee to the Potsdam Conference ; and later that year the Prime Minister named him as one of his private secretaries . |
| 25 | In the end , however , the Ukrainian decision to vote for full independence left him with little alternative but to withdraw from the USSR and in effect bring about its demise ( see pp. 179–85 ) . |
| 26 | Why the horror , why the compulsive fascination , by what despairing route had this new and unexpected compulsion carried him through semi-tropical plants in a glass lift to an afternoon such as he would sworn never to attend — he did not know . |
| 27 | He started accusing everyone from Sam Gristy to Jan Treffry himself of meddling with his fish barrels , and insisted on one of Sam 's barrels being opened as well ; but when it was found to be brim full Martha told him in plain terms that as far as she was concerned , he had lost the contest . |
| 28 | The Champ , who retired six years , was an institution and his extraordinary finishing burst took him to 20 track records . |
| 29 | So closely did Burrows identify with Venizelos that the Greek statesman invited him in 1916 to act as the ‘ semi-official ’ representative in London of his breakaway provisional government in Salonika . |
| 30 | The highly-athletic Lewis bagged him at 197 , stooping and clutching a low drive . |