Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 2 | David remained close for a brief moment , perhaps hoping that she would retract her words , but Beth only looked at him in that certain proud manner which told him she would not change her mind . |
| 3 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |
| 4 | He looked at her with exasperation when she just gazed at him with wide deep blue eyes . |
| 5 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 6 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 8 | And then , in the following year , prompted by his frequent descriptions of his own loneliness — his fear of becoming ill , his dislike of attending receptions alone — she again wrote to him in similar terms . |
| 9 | Aye you never heard of him after that . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |