Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 2 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 3 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 4 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 7 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 8 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Werner never met W. E. Taylor [ q.v. ] , whose obituary she wrote ; while not rivalling his mastery of Swahili , she excelled him in her wide command of Bantu languages . |
| 11 | On Oct. 9 , shortly after appearing before a special tribunal [ see below ] , she accused him of " naked aggression " against the judiciary , and added that she regarded him as her main opponent . |
| 12 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 13 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 14 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 15 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 16 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 17 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 18 | 2–10–1905 They discussed the report of the Synod Committee and were dissatisfied , the report being " a misrepresentation of the state of the congregation " and expressed their sympathy with Rev. Peter Stewart and assured him of their full confidence . |
| 19 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 20 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 21 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 22 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 23 | She told him about her easy acceptance that there was a repeated message from Barbara Coleman . |
| 24 | That was why when I told him about my LCC-subsidized visit to Paris , he insisted that I should pay calls on friends of his like Paul Valéry , Jacques Maritain and Charles du Bos ; and he set about providing me with letters of introduction . |
| 25 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 26 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 27 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 28 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 29 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 30 | Thereafter Ramos founded a new political group , the People Power Party ( PPP ) , which adopted him as its presidential nominee on Jan. 2 . |