Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |
| 2 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 3 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 4 | But wanting only frustrated him more . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , to let Blackbeard know we only charged him fifty per cent for returning it . ’ |
| 6 | But her fear only provoked him further and he turned + slapped first Jo , and then her solidly across the face — a thing he had never done before . |
| 7 | Llewelyn crossed to him , smiling , and gently shook him awake . |
| 8 | But she only loved him more . |
| 9 | He strove to keep his face from that wall as it inexorably pulled him closer . |
| 10 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 11 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 12 | Towards the end of his playing career when he was with Hibs and contemplating a move to the Orlando Lions , a short lived soccer team in Florida , Rough 's business interests not only brought him appalling bad luck but imposed a series of financial set-backs that were to affect him in the years to come . |
| 13 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 14 | His success in the competition apparently gave him considerable encouragement as , according to the introduction to his Notes of Thought : |
| 15 | I denounced the judges who only gave him two ( out of ten ) for his best wave , but he said , ‘ It was fair . |
| 16 | BOBBY GOULDING is no saint — but I 'm glad the disciplinary committee only gave him two matches last night after his trial by TV . |
| 17 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 18 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |
| 19 | Although Tibbs warned Benn that he needed the last two rounds , I already had him five rounds up — and so did Eubank . |
| 20 | Yet the thought of being tied to Karen permanently made him sick . |
| 21 | She had a terrible temper , and it always made him double up when she swore at him and clenched her fists . |
| 22 | It always made him sick when he was expected to watch the turkey-killings . |
| 23 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 24 | When she occasionally visited him in London or Stuttgart , she always found him busy , although he would certainly have made time for a new lover , and he did put himself out to entertain his cousin Petrie who , with his wife , turned up unexpectedly in Stuttgart during a travelling holiday . |
| 25 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 26 | They were great friends — there were three of them : Uncle , Gifford Tate , and Papa Burger-I do n't know why ‘ papa ’ but they always called him that . |
| 27 | George coped very well with Lennie and always kept him happy , but in the end , Lennie 's strength cut off all options and George had to kill a best friend . |
| 28 | Although Mr Taylor refused to reveal whether or not the Premier League deal is acceptable to him or his members , who yesterday gave him overwhelming support for necessary action , it would be foolish to embark on a strike now . |
| 29 | In June he went up to Leeds for a three-week holiday : the air of the Yorkshire moors always did him good , and there were in the vicinity a doctor , an oculist and a radiologist to examine him periodically . |
| 30 | This was not of itself disastrous — after tonight it would once more be his profession — but whereas painting had a tangible end result ( two , if he included the recompense ) , pursuit and seduction always left him naked and empty-handed . |