Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 2 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 3 | He waved behind him towards one of the French windows that led out to the formal gardens surrounding the palace . |
| 4 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 5 | The emotion he generated about him in those moments was a pit of black silence . |
| 6 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 8 | He looked around him for some sort of weapon , backing off as Duvall walked slowly towards him . |
| 9 | He shot after him at high speed . |