Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me . |
| 2 | She made an inarticulate protest and tried to pull him closer , but deliberately he moved out of reach , leaving space between them . |
| 3 | I promised to set him free . ’ |
| 4 | THUGS poured petrol over a schoolboy and tried to set him alight after he refused to go shoplifting . |
| 5 | Neil had petrol poured over him by thugs who then tried to set him alight . |
| 6 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 7 | One MP even tried to put him right last night . |
| 8 | When he left I phoned to wish him all the best and he said , ‘ keep on picking people 's brains ’ . ’ |
| 9 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 10 | Several drunk Britons tried to hang him one night , and would have succeeded had not a French Corporal cut him down in time . |
| 11 | An accident : The man who died when friends tried to stop him drink-driving . |
| 12 | He slumped to the floor and she tried to drag him clear . |
| 13 | Charlton boss Lennie Lawrence made a mental note of the raw youngster and tried to sign him two seasons later . |
| 14 | I promised to tell him all about my murder when I 'd written it . |
| 15 | They helped to make him unmistakable , which he liked . |
| 16 | Fa : During that week that he had that he was in absolute agony and night time seemed to affect him more than during the day . |
| 17 | It seemed to shake him more than she had anticipated . |
| 18 | Thereafter I never attacked Rowse 's political views in print , and , when I came to know him better , I no longer felt I had reason to do so . |
| 19 | They always seemed to find him attractive , and were prepared to make excuses for his more glaring defects . ’ |
| 20 | The weight of Garvey on his narrow , bony shoulders , combined with the close fit of the donkey-head , seemed to cause him some distress , because he suddenly reeled up against a wall and snatched off the head . |
| 21 | He 's er he 's saying that er the shifting of the ground 's political but I 'd to remember him that er , th it 's the council that 's doing their job , he 's not doing his job . |
| 22 | Small moans of protest sounded in her throat but they seemed to excite him more , because he growled with satisfaction , his lips branding hers with heat . |
| 23 | When it was loose at night he gathered it in his hands and buried his face against it before kissing her , and it seemed to give him more satisfaction than the hurried , clumsy act of love which followed . |
| 24 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 25 | Deeply suspicious of his motives , she treated him with all the most obvious display of distrust of which she was capable , but her efforts seemed to leave him cold , so she decided there was only one course left open to her . |
| 26 | Her lips were swollen against her pale face and the sight of her distress seemed to infuriate him more . |
| 27 | Like Anne , Maureen had often felt uneasy about Sarah 's relationship with Terry and thought that she seemed to regard him more as a brother than a lover . |
| 28 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 29 | Her remote yet detached look seemed to make him uncomfortable . |
| 30 | Yet the very study of mythology from a scientific attitude distanced modern man at the same time as it seemed to bring him closer . |