Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew he 'd fought James on it tooth and nail , and though in all honesty I felt I 'd won him round to some extent since , the prejudices remained beneath the surface of benignity , waiting only for some unwary blunder on my part to crack the surface and let them burst through . |
| 2 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 3 | Because he 'd pulled him back like that , stopped him from doing what he wanted , he was going to have one of his screaming fits . |
| 4 | There was a pause , and the Oak seemed to study him afresh with solemn , scholarly eyes . |
| 5 | the guy in the car park when he forgot to ring him back about some important business . |
| 6 | Ginny gave him the address and phone number of her office , and arranged to meet him there at 12.45 . |
| 7 | Its prime time is shortly before the 8 am news , but it decided to put him on at 8.20 am , when many listeners will be on their way to work . |
| 8 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 9 | It would have been more accurate to say he preferred that version of events to any other , but one lie had committed him now to several distortions . |
| 10 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 11 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 12 | Stuart had noticed him often after that , sometimes on the corner by the students ' union , other times on Princes Street , silhouetted against the store windows , sidling up to the late-night shoppers on Thursdays . |
| 13 | At a parade a few years before the war , when the Crown Prince was a major rising thirty , the Kaiser had shown him up before all his men by calling out to the Brigadier , ‘ teach the boy how to ride ! ’ , and now their relationship was as distant and difficult as ever . |
| 14 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 15 | They were n't told FIMBRA had kicked him out in 1988 and so they are n't entitled to compensation . |
| 16 | He understood the depth of the compliment : the landlord had compared him favourably with that greatest of heroes , a local boy made good ( so long , of course , as he makes good far away ) . |
| 17 | I saw the way you had to fight him off in that first dance — the bastard 's hands were everywhere ! ’ |
| 18 | Anthony Morris , QC , told Manchester Crown Court that Mr Foster died because he had the ‘ misfortune ’ to have been at the same secondary school as the gunman and had known him well for four years . |
| 19 | NoS had mucked him about for more than a year . |
| 20 | She could only now assume that Life had served him badly in some way , at least in his own opinion . |
| 21 | They had hosed him down after that , then poured urine over him . |
| 22 | I concluded from what Heather told me that Alan had taken him on for old time 's sake . ’ |
| 23 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 24 | The er other thing about our crew was that er one time there , I guess after was the only one that got back and they , they had to get him back on flying service . |
| 25 | Men had beaten him up on several occasions , for no apparent reason . |
| 26 | Scenting the strength of Coleby 's desire for the knife , he had beaten him up from two shillings to ten over a period of three days . |
| 27 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 28 | He had been thinking , as he frequently did , of pain , and of how it almost seemed as though Rogal Dorn had singled him out for special benediction even before the Primarch 's germ-plasm had been introduced into his body … |
| 29 | Before Aunt Tossie had sent him away to that Special School , Nicandra had been such a good little Queen to him . |
| 30 | He had never been with a man who wanted to take him out at three in morning and stand him up against a wall in a dark street and jerk him off , not because there was nowhere else to go , but for the pleasure of doing it like that ; he had never done it again and again with one body . |