Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] and [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was voicing a desire which he feared might only bring him Meh'Lindi 's contempt — so soon after she had honoured and anointed him with her body . |
| 2 | But Rohmer had to know the answer to the questions that had fascinated and intrigued him for so long ; the questions that bore down on him with ever-increasing force during the drug-induced hallucinatory periods that were now so frequent in his life . |
| 3 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 4 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 5 | Oh , how she loved him , her strong and handsome father , not the ogre she had thought and called him over Terry — and to hear him admit that he was wrong ! |
| 6 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 7 | Wearing one of his more elaborate uniforms complete with medals , the monarch had been using a soda siphon , which , because of some defect , had backfired and showered him with mineral water . |