Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed far away from Ruth , in a trance whose nature she could only guess at — but free , she thought , of the despair and anger that beset him in their own world . |
| 2 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 3 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 4 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 5 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 6 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 7 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 8 | ‘ I loved him in my own way . |
| 9 | Oddly , though he could never bear to be out of her sight and cried whenever she left him , as soon as his eldest sister , the faithful Cis , got him to her own home he ceased to cry . |
| 10 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 11 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 12 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 13 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 14 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 15 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 16 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 17 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |
| 18 | On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices . |
| 19 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |