Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 2 | Passionate with indignation at the poverty and injustices which he daily met around him in the industrial north of Bradford , he sought , and was able to gain from , J.P.M. 's National Council of Labour Colleges , that knowledge which served him so well throughout his short working life , as a weapon with which to fight and change the capitalist system which tolerated and perpetuated such inhumane living conditions . |
| 3 | A face suddenly lunged at him , its teeth bared . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't think what suddenly got into him . |
| 5 | The resulting radical pollution control programme outlined by Nixon , calling for a 90 per cent reduction in vehicle emissions by 1980 , not only led to him being credited ( albeit briefly ) as policy initiator of an environmental clean-up but also provided him with the chance to deal a blow to one of his most important opponents in the 1972 elections , Edmund Muskie . |
| 6 | Thus she not only shouted at him , she once took his best blowpipe , broke it in two and stamped on it . |
| 7 | If you think books do n't change people , just look at Changez , because undreamed-of possibilities in the sex line suddenly occurred to him , a man recently married and completely celibate who saw Britain as we saw Sweden : as the goldmine of sexual opportunity . |
| 8 | A thought suddenly occurred to him . |
| 9 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 10 | The room suddenly seemed to him both overcrowded and empty . |
| 11 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 12 | The solution suddenly came to him , and he had to control himself from shouting out " Eureka " . |
| 13 | ‘ It suddenly came over him ? ’ |
| 14 | In a ‘ stop run ’ organised by the landlord of the Half Moon on St. Paul 's Street during Christmas 1776 , the Mercury reported that ‘ several people were toss 'd , and one man , terribly bruis 'd and gor 'd in the face , by which it is fear 'd he will lose one of his eyes ’ and in 1785 the underbutler of Burghley House was killed when the bull suddenly turned on him . |
| 15 | The dog sank its powerful jaws into the boy 's face when it suddenly turned on him as he played at his home in Alton , Hants . |
| 16 | ‘ Not the usual kind of student 's flat , ’ muttered the Marshal , surprised to find his feet walking on fitted carpet , a thing that only happened to him in the lobbies of hotels he was checking on . |
| 17 | When he lay down beside her she impulsively turned to him . |
| 18 | ‘ But that 's the trouble , ’ she suddenly flared at him . |
| 19 | A monster 's mum was hanging up the washing in the garden when she suddenly yelled at him : |
| 20 | At the door she suddenly grinned at him , and when she had gone the grin seemed to him still to be hanging in the air , like the Cheshire cat 's . |
| 21 | I crawl , I kiss your arse , do everything — ’ She had worked herself up into a state of almost incoherent fury , like a child in a tantrum , tears streaming down her face and her whole body shaking in a sort of passion as she suddenly flew at him , clawing with her nails . |
| 22 | She kinda thought of him as a poet , and I think he loved her for that . |
| 23 | The monk , wearing a black tabard over a white habit , only stared at him , but halted beside a low doorway and tossed his head in a summons . |
| 24 | As she said this , I could see the doctor putting on his mackintosh and hat in the hall and so went to him , the teapot still in my hand . |
| 25 | Because of Gloucester 's influence in the duchy , royal servants naturally looked to him for lordship . |
| 26 | Because of Gloucester 's influence in the duchy , royal servants naturally looked to him for lordship . |
| 27 | My father and mother perhaps saw in him the son they would have liked to have , not the peculiar failure they had produced in me . |
| 28 | David remained close for a brief moment , perhaps hoping that she would retract her words , but Beth only looked at him in that certain proud manner which told him she would not change her mind . |
| 29 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 30 | Buddie suddenly reached behind him with one hand , grabbed Frankie by the sleeve and yanked him from his seat at the table . |