Example sentences of "him [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken the Thompson with him for a practical demonstration and afterwards had not had an opportunity to exchange it for the army 's normal issue Sterling gun . |
| 2 | She stared at him for a long moment before she took in what he had said . |
| 3 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
| 4 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 5 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 6 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 7 | Yeah , I said yeah I am , I said I 'm gon na drive up and see , so we got in , went up to Wendy 's , you could n't see through the door Pen , Penny and Kev said well we 'll drive round as well , I said well she 's had us up and down , cos one minute she was quite strong then the next she could n't cope , I said Wendy all I want you to ever know is that I 'm there , if ever you want me phone me , I do n't care whether it 's middle of the night , middle of the morning or whatever , so she says alright , anyway Penny went up , she said she could n't see anything she thinks she 's gone a bed and then me and Rudy went up , it must have been quarter to one cos I took him for a little walk and I got out the car and walked round the back and then , I could see her curtains were open and I could see a light on , so I went round the front and I shouted through the letter box , Wen it 's only me I 've come to wish you a happy new year , let's hope next year will be better than this one and she come to the door and she was broken hearted |
| 8 | But the allegations of a popish plot which broke at the end of 1678 embarrassed Dering deeply , dividing him between a strong anti-Catholicism and his loyalty to the monarchy and his patrons in the government . |
| 9 | It had come to him as a blinding revelation when he was but a small child . |
| 10 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 11 | Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as |
| 12 | He remembered him as a kindly man but not a very lively one . |
| 13 | In view of the fact that , like you , I regard him as a fluent liar and consummate actor , I think not . |
| 14 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 15 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 16 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 17 | His correspondents agents , theatres , drama groups , journalists , students , teachers — treated him as a major writer and waited to see what he would do next . |
| 18 | Tom Selleck as King Ferdinand of Spain is a real hoot — he ca n't decide whether to play him as a moody Continental or haughty monarch , so what we get is a cross between Magnum and Don Juan with an accent that hovers between Malibu and Basingstoke . |
| 19 | The trial unmasked him as a complete charlatan and , in the words of one detective , ‘ as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get ’ . |
| 20 | I have described him as a literary concept and this , as applied to a man in a dirty trench-coat moving in and out of sleazy beds and corrupt gambling dens , may seem to be rather excessive . |
| 21 | They see him as a potential match-winner when the new four-day format is brought into championship cricket next year . |
| 22 | But that was it : she never saw him as a likely husband or lover . |
| 23 | Other Lancashire businessmen watching his progress had come to respect him as a red-hot entrepreneur and ruthless opponent in business dealings , for whom profit was the consideration that overrode every other . |
| 24 | He asked her not to remember him as a bad man but as someone who had made a mistake . |
| 25 | But , far from being able to greet him like a young girl when he came , she 'd have a job to hide how decrepit she was . |
| 26 | The winger jumped at the last minute and Kitchen slid underneath him like a runaway bull and hit the concrete wall full on . |
| 27 | She looked at him with a tiny frown but said nothing . |
| 28 | He looked as though a cannonball had hit him amidships and left him with a hollow chest and a permanent arch in his back . |
| 29 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 30 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |