Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 2 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 3 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 4 | In testimony to a House subcommittee in late April and early May , DuBois L. Gilliam , a former HUD official currently serving a prison sentence for manipulating housing grants , alleged that former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce had ordered him on several occasions to award HUD grants on political considerations . |
| 5 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 6 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 7 | He was a good-looking man in his late thirties , and Fran had met him on several occasions but had never liked him , finding something faintly repugnant about the way he stood on the outside of life looking in , searching for anything unsavoury . |
| 8 | George had told him in private the reason for Sarah Butler being packed off to Leeds , and he had realised then that her infatuation for George was an obsession . |
| 9 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 10 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 11 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 12 | Gandhi was enchanted by the viceroy 's frankness , and recalled to him that Smuts had treated him with similar candour , recognizing , as he said , the justice of his claim on a certain issue , but advancing unanswerable reasons from the point of view of government why it was impossible to meet . |
| 13 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 14 | Girfriend Zoe had told him at first that she had seen punches being exchanged betweeen the two , then that she had not , but he said she was confussed and highly distressed . |