Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he was back from town , had seen him earlier through the window . |
| 2 | " I do n't want you to think that we eat like this every night , " said the sultan with a smile ; indeed , we had seen him earlier in the day wearing well-cut Western clothes . |
| 3 | The Hatchet had not lost those qualities which had made him one of the most respected , and feared , members of the underworld . |
| 4 | Fleischmann said that one of the referees had said that it was nonsense and that the reaction of this referee had made him nervous about the validity of their experiment . |
| 5 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |
| 6 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 7 | Mill Reefs victory had proved him one of the greatest European racehorses of the age . |
| 8 | When patients who did not contact their general practitioners before their attempts were questioned about why they had not gone to their doctor , it was found that many were reluctant to trouble him , some had found him unhelpful in the fist , and others thought he was unlikely to be helpful or might even be unsympathetic ( Hawton and Blackstock 1976 ) . |
| 9 | His predecessor , Diego Tamariz , who had held the post since 1988 , was dismissed on March 12 after a National Congress hearing had found him responsible for the " incorrect and illegal " handling of the country 's oil and electrification affairs . |
| 10 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 11 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 12 | Grunte had taken him earlier in the year to a lunch at the Connaught Rooms where he ( Malcolm ) had been introduced to Lady Porter . |
| 13 | There was a curious connection now in his mind between the time that Sergeant Barry Lawrence had knocked him silly in the pub and this new blurring of his mind . |
| 14 | Ben thought that this was considerable cheek , on two counts : one , he had beaten him earlier in the year in Moscow , and two , Ben had been the faster all year . |
| 15 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |