Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
2 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
3 | As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes . |
4 | They had requested of him a single large living room , an ample eating room and ‘ no useless drawingroom ’ . |
5 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |
6 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
7 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
8 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
9 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
10 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
11 | E. C. Llewellyn , the Professor , was a rich , pleasant man , interested in linguistics , who had assembled around him an excellent team . |
12 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |