Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When bidding farewell to Porua , I tried to extract from him some word of praise for my activities on behalf of his paper . |
| 2 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 3 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 4 | He remembered how Yuan had come to him that night , pale and frightened , woken by a terrible dream . |
| 5 | Finally , infuriated by her own weakness where Adam was concerned , she had turned on him one evening in the club , shaking his hand from her hair as though scorched by his touch . |
| 6 | In his office high up in the twenty-five storey building that is 550 Fashion Avenue , mecca of the New York fashion industry , Hugo Varna sat at his desk and fiddled with the executive toy Sally had bought for him last Christmas . |
| 7 | Something had died in him that day ; and , at the same time , something had been born . |
| 8 | It was nothing to him , of course — orders were orders — yet it had occurred to him several times that it would have been far simpler to evacuate the Shepherds than go through with all this nonsense . |
| 9 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 10 | Daisy Yates showed me the postcard she had had from him that morning . |
| 11 | She had to send for him New Year 's Day for Vince ! |
| 12 | Anticipating the harsh lighting in our room , Leslie had brought with him some candles , and I was touched by the romantic tenderness of the gesture . |
| 13 | The raging optimism which it had instilled in him last night , under whose influence he had finally escaped from Merymose 's story , was now replaced by a simple whimpering plea to whatever god listened to self-pitying hangover sufferers just to let him be all right again , his own man , as soon as possible . |
| 14 | He had taken with him more badness than goodness , leaving not a vacuum , but a breathing space . |
| 15 | three or four times I had to speak to him last night , and you never said a word , you just pretended or said you did n't hear |