Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Gun cannoned into him and the two men sprawled on the ground . |
| 2 | And then she knelt over him and the round childish face with its bush of bright hair shut out the sky . |
| 3 | It occurred to him that the small squares and staggered alleys might have a practical as well as an aesthetic function . |
| 4 | Stephen drove south by the main road and as he came through Goughdale it occurred to him that the yellow Volkswagen might still be there . |
| 5 | Many aspects of the post-conciliar debate seemed simply , and not surprisingly , to have passed him by — they seemed to him but the fashionable irrelevancies of a West that had had it rather too good , yet dangerous temptations too . |
| 6 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 7 | I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered . |
| 8 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 9 | Swindon and , by extension , the Jefferies country around Coate won a permanent place in Thomas 's life because of the indissoluble friendship that developed between him and the old man called ‘ Dad ’ Uzzell . |
| 10 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 11 | penetrate the chilling force-field that lay between him and the two men . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose , ' ’ Rab said , but he hardly felt the better ; not , with hobo drinkers , they looked at him and the tattooed barman called him Stick . |
| 13 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 14 | He said McMullan hurled the bomb while McCrory stood with him and the two men escaped through Garland 's garden and house , the doors of which had been left open as pre-arranged . |