Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 His reputation as a hard man — he had picked up a conviction for GBH — had won him work on the bouncer circuit and the title ‘ King of the Bouncers ’ .
2 She had never even expected him to help with the dishes when she had fed him here .
3 He was sure no one had noticed him talking to the journalist .
4 Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind .
5 The Prince 's vanity had made him dress for a winter 's campaign on what threatened to be the summer 's hottest day yet .
6 Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes .
7 It was about six feet from him when it went off , to which distance , and the fact that Peter 's kick had made him roll into the water at the minute of explosion , he owed his mangled survival .
8 Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative .
9 ‘ If you got as far as Spargo 's you must have seen him go under the scaffolding . ’
10 They 'd have seen him walk toward the escalators as the car drew away , moving as if on some rudimentary automatic pilot .
11 Ymor had on several occasions seen him look around the room with an expression of deep satisfaction .
12 This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures .
13 Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him .
14 I 've seen him play over the years er Mick , you know he 's er typical of player , we 've had him watched a few times this year , er scouts him er at Aston Villa , said he had a magnificent game .
15 That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever .
16 Now I 've seen him interfering with the smoke alarm now !
17 I 've seen him crying like a child over a dead baby he carried in .
18 As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon .
19 If only she had seen him come into the shop — but she always seemed to miss him .
20 Teacher never had a moment 's peace with him , and I could n't count the number of times I 've seen him waiting outside the headmaster 's study .
21 Dick 's career has seen him playing against the country 's best , even though he always remained a village player at heart .
22 There were lines now from nose to mouth ; the lips were stern ; she had seen him take in the room , who was there , with whom , with one cold appraising glance as he entered .
23 Her mother , Lavender , had fallen in love with a scholarly man called Frederick Legh when she had met him walking on the Moor .
24 His response to this rejection is as flat as his reaction to the massive demonstration which Keith has earlier persuaded him to join against the Vietnam War .
25 Several times , Gedge had persuaded him to stay with the band when he had become disgruntled and ‘ warnings ’ had not been given because he ostensibly wanted to leave anyway .
26 She had watched him go amongst the caskets , then lift one of the lids , peering inside .
27 Scott had watched him get into the rocket many times and he dreamed about going with Space Man .
28 Sometimes he tried to catch her style in scraps of speech that he wrote in a notebook , because she had often told him to listen to the way strangers talked and to keep a record of conversations overheard in the Underground .
29 I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze .
30 I bet myself that was Sorley 's , as I 'd had him pegged as the Boy Racer type and I was glad the insurance companies were uprating them .
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