Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bit o' glass 'ad caught him on the fore'ead , but otherwise we 'ad n't a scratch to show for it between us . |
| 2 | She 'd heard him at the glass door — a double knock , very light . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 4 | If you 'd shuffled him into , say , motoring , no one would have cared . |
| 5 | He 'd thrown rocks at windows of offices and works they 'd sacked him from , he 'd defaced buildings , scratched officials ' cars and mutilated bonnet mascots ( though that was largely for his own safety ) and he 'd made bomb-hoax telephone calls . |
| 6 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 7 | She had the fleeting impression that she 'd caught him on the raw . |
| 8 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 9 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
| 10 | She 'd met him at one of Klein 's parties — a casual encounter — and had given him very little conscious thought subsequently . |
| 11 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 12 | I 'd met him in Nigeria . |
| 13 | I told Caroline I 'd met him by chance . |
| 14 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 15 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 16 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 17 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 18 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 19 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 20 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 21 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
| 22 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 23 | as if they 'd robbed him of something . |
| 24 | She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it . |
| 25 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 26 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 27 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 28 | He said he made a mistake : he said that he talked about armchairs being ripped up at Madge 's house , even before you 'd told him about them . |
| 29 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 30 | He was far more suspicious of her now than he had been before she 'd told him about Dana , and he still thought she was Garry 's lover . |