Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 2 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 3 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 4 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |
| 5 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 6 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 7 | It was as if , gasping out his last breath , that battered , bitter and vindictive old man had somehow injected him with some small portion of his own bitter resolve . |
| 8 | With Mr Crump 's wealth … his dreams of money diverted his energy from the sexual lust which had gripped him after that effervescent meeting with the Crumps . |
| 9 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 10 | What , she wondered , had brought him to this ungainly death ? |
| 11 | The Uttoxeter race last month , when he was third to today 's rival Laura 's Beau , will have brought him to full racing fitness after just four runs ( two over hurdles ) in the intervening 23 months . |
| 12 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 13 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |
| 14 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 15 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |