Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
| 2 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 3 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 4 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 5 | Minton 's virtuoso performances with pencil or pen and ink commended him as a teacher . |
| 6 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 7 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 8 | After the darkness and coolness the light and heat struck him like a blow . |
| 9 | One way and another , Attlee looks better with every passing year — a kind of benevolent public school master , whose sense of duty and justice raised him above the sectional partisanship of class or party . |
| 10 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |