Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as he disagreed with him about the essential or principal properties of body , Locke disagreed with Descartes about the mind . |
| 2 | Black fury rose in him against the evil creature who was leeching Ireland of her youth , but Nuadu quenched it , lest the Robemaker turn it to his use . |
| 3 | In 1741 Collinson reported to him on the miraculous achievement at Thorndon : |
| 4 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 5 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 7 | It occurred to him with a sudden pang that this was now in jeopardy . |
| 8 | Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth . |
| 9 | Appeal from a decision of Macnaghten J. on the further consideration of an action tried by him with a special jury . |
| 10 | The animal seemed to understand Sir John 's words for it lunged towards him with a strangled growl ; its top lip curled , showing teeth as sharp as a row of daggers . |
| 11 | As Mr Mansell hesitated , Emerson Fittipaldi from Brazil and Arie Luyendyk from Holland zoomed past him on the main straight . |
| 12 | It was full of pieces of paper , which he dropped behind him for the other boys to follow . |
| 13 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 14 | It worked ; the old man came with him into the junk-filled yard . |
| 15 | Since it was the golden-fleeced ram the king really wanted , he was not at all pleased when Marko came before him on the seventh day with a jug of sweet wine and a cluster of grapes in his handkerchief . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Essentially , the proofs of the reality of God appealed to him as the only adequate explanation for the existence of the world . |
| 18 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 19 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 22 | The sun came to him in a warm gust or like a warm veil enveloping him . |
| 23 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 24 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 25 | Conversely , if the accused can show that the material came to him in the normal course of business from a reputable supplier , he may have a defence . |
| 26 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 27 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 28 | As for Mr Berkley , the conversation seemed to him like the macabre chorus of some drama in which he was eventually to appear , by some unexpected twist of the plot , as the despicable villain . |
| 29 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 30 | A swarm of ghosts gyred around him in a multiple helix , allowed some measure of self-determination by his preoccupation , furtively snatching their existence from his body and his mind . |