Example sentences of "him [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What a recipe for disaster — going back to that Spanish girl who 'd got him sacked in the first place , and then … |
| 2 | In 1919 , a stroke left him paralysed down the left side , confused , unable to read or dictate , and staring vacantly into space . |
| 3 | She had had him pegged as an emotional lightweight , probably good at his job in a technical sense but untroubled by messy feelings . |
| 4 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 5 | We did what we could but , ideally , I 'd like to see him moved to a proper unit , specialising in orthopaedics . |
| 6 | They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall . |
| 7 | It may be said at once that the earlier date , adopted by the the editor of the Istanbul edition of Asikpasazade and Danismend , may safely be ruled out , not only through the evidence of Molla Yegan 's involvement with Molla Gurani but also on the basis of an anecdote about him related in the tenth volume of the history by Kemalpasazade ( d. 940/1534 ) . |
| 8 | The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing … what had he been playing ? |
| 9 | He jogged every morning with lead weights slung on his chest , back and thighs to get him used to the extra poundage of the armour . |
| 10 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 11 | That is his strength — but also his weakness , since music tends to take second place and leave him locked in a radical cabaret slot from which he is unlikely to emerge . |
| 12 | In fact , the point of having him played by a 6-foot 10inch ( 2.1-m ) Nigerian student , Bolaji Badejo , plus a rather less tall stuntman , was largely lost . |
| 13 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 14 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 15 | ‘ We had planned to run a single GM-backed Astra this year for Luis Climent but when Bardolet became available it was decided to provide a second car for him supported by an outside sponsor , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 16 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 17 | Some time later a creditor did succeed in having him removed to a sponging house , where friends subscribed £500 to make life more bearable for him . |
| 18 | But her fears were groundless : the generation gap in this instance had him beached on a far shore . |
| 19 | That 's probably what got him started in the first place . |
| 20 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 21 | Suitably indignant this week over the pogrom nonsense , he can address the city 's racial tensions with a transparent decency and integrity that did much to get him elected in the first place — and that have served the city well since 1989 . |
| 22 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 23 | Even though I could now visualize a cell or a room , and a man chained to a wall , trying to occupy his mind and keep his fears at bay , when I thought of John it was like thinking of him lost in an abstract painting which I did n't understand . |
| 24 | A TOP salesman sacked for shirking after his boss had him tailed by a private eye won £11,000 compensation yesterday . |