Example sentences of "[vb past] him [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came into still closer contact with the film industry when S. John Woods , as advertising director at Ealing Studios , invited him to design three posters . |
| 2 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 3 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 4 | Tom Jones found him getting deaf in 1932 , and thought this resulted in his missing remarks to an extent which affected his political judgment . |
| 5 | She slipped into a nerve-racking routine with Damian Flint , and every day she went to see her father and found him getting better and better . |
| 6 | But police officers found him lying drunk outside the door . |
| 7 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 8 | She was really pleased when she came back and found him fighting fit , even though he was still using one wing as a crutch to support his crooked leg . |
| 9 | When Mary came out , she found him standing still with his back to the sun , looking down the river towards the shady woodlands round Grandtully . |
| 10 | Bert said he was tired , but she followed him , and found him standing alone in the room he had shared with Pat . |
| 11 | When the lights came up and I turned to ask his reactions , I found him sitting speechless , tears coursing down his cheeks . |
| 12 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 13 | She let him talk dirty whenever he felt like it ! |
| 14 | He took him to all the different workshops de Chavigny maintained in different parts of Paris : he let him watch these highly skilled men at work , the specialists in metalwork , the specialists in inlay work and enamels , the gem-cutters , the gem-setters , the team of men who made the mechanisms for clocks and watches . |
| 15 | It seems she let him run wild while she got on with her business — hate to think what that was — and he got nabbed by the police . |
| 16 | Roy Fredericks 's second century helped him pass 500 runs for the series , although Richards and Greenidge still finished above him in the aggregates and averages . |
| 17 | Woodruffe helped him drink some Scotch and put him in Rogers 's limousine which a mechanic had brought over . |
| 18 | You concealed knowledge of a deserter , you actually helped him stay deserted , and They can make out a case for saying you still are . |
| 19 | Afterwards they went shopping together and she helped him choose some shoes for his wife . |
| 20 | What happened next , was done by a child ‘ who had suffered years of subtle torture at the hands of a madman whose twisted mind helped him justify all his crimes ’ . |
| 21 | She helped him lose two stones . |
| 22 | Counselling also helped him to uncover some of the fears of loss which underlay his extreme jealousy . |
| 23 | Simon gained valuable site experience which helped him to gain chartered engineer status . |
| 24 | It was a position which helped him survive many subsequent close calls , particularly during the wave of anti-foreign sentiment engendered under the later years of President Sukarno 's regime . |
| 25 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 26 | The theory goes that the Americans were worried at the thought of Iraq breaking up into its component parts , and decided it would be safer if they left Saddam where he was , and even helped him to become stronger . |
| 27 | A drop of scotch during occasional periods of self-criticism helped him to become happy with himself , but most of the time he was happy anyway . |
| 28 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 29 | But first this lunchtime , the High Court in Glasgow has heard how the brother of murdered Edinburgh student Paul Sheldon had a flashback of the incident which helped him to identify one of the alleged attackers . |
| 30 | The centre helped him to get professional help . |