Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His actions had caused him to be one of the most reviled prisoners among the white community , and the government had hitherto refused to recognize him as a political prisoner . |
| 2 | Far from moderating his condemnation of Mansell 's start-line performance in Estoril the previous week , the world champion stuck to his allegation that Mansell had deliberately tried to push him off the track . |
| 3 | None of the agencies involved in the official investigation of the Flight 103 bombing , either British or American , had even attempted to question him about the activities he had observed on Cyprus , despite all the rumours of the DEA 's involvement . |
| 4 | The latter , a gentleman of cultural and literary tastes , is in the practice of providing tuition in various languages to those desirous of obtaining his services in that behalf , and tells us that Herr Hamnett , being a young gentleman of similar intellectual inclinations , had kindly offered to assist him in his labours … ’ |
| 5 | They had almost stopped resuscitating him on the grounds that the doctor had n't remembered his diagnosis . |
| 6 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 7 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 8 | Both the Republic and Belgium had earlier refused to extradite him to Britain . |