Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 3 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |
| 4 | " I did n't know him — I only spoke to him for a few minutes , but David Fairfax recognised him . " |
| 5 | Jed just stared at him across the top of his glass . |
| 6 | An OTC dealer loyally argued against him with a vigour that is rarely seen in a university environment . |
| 7 | It was n't what usually happened to him after a performance . |
| 8 | It was the Colonel himself who taught me how to shoot , and I always went with him for the fishing . |
| 9 | He always spoke of him in the most affectionate terms . |
| 10 | Once , months later , when she went to the Regency on a Saturday night with some girlfriends she practically bumped into him on the stairs . |
| 11 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 12 | Tolstoy clearly appealed to him as a great apostle of non-violence , and one who enabled all votaries of ahi sā to realize and understand that non-violence involved not only the negative attitude of freedom from anger and hate but also the positive attitude of love for all men . |
| 13 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 14 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 15 | Now , as she wearily trailed behind him into the main living-room , Laura 's nose wrinkled at the musty , stale atmosphere of the room . |
| 16 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 17 | Tweed 's close confidante , she often worked with him in the field . |
| 18 | Soon he was taken away : a uniformed guard simply beckoned to him through the half-open door . |
| 19 | I even went with him to the Black Bull that night , determined to spend my weekly wages on whatever he wanted . |
| 20 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 21 | He sang well , too , and I sometimes sang with him in the evenings . |
| 22 | He disconnected its alarm while the salesman revved the engine , then went with him to the office to arrange the sale , giving false details . |
| 23 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 24 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 25 | He stoked the fire so that it flared , then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones . |
| 26 | In his 57 years at the College , he undoubtedly gained a great deal of clinical knowledge , which he unfortunately carried with him to the grave . |
| 27 | They evidently thought of him as a foreigner . |
| 28 | I certainly thought of him as a tyrant : my diaries are full of complaints about unfair treatment , undeserved punishments ( including the corporal variety ) and arbitrary deprivations . |
| 29 | She liked him , never thought of him as a boyfriend , he was too comfortable . |
| 30 | Peter never went near him after the bankruptcy case . |