Example sentences of "[vb past] him [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 2 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 3 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 4 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 5 | An –easy conscience chafed him like his new , scratchy tweed suit , caused him the same persistent discomfort as the broken spring he was hatching out beneath his buttocks . |
| 6 | Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ? |
| 7 | Archie joined him a few seconds later , closing the door behind him . |
| 8 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 9 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
| 10 | ‘ She called him the former proprietor . |
| 11 | Like I 've him at , watched him a few times , she goes , get off he says , what |
| 12 | Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool . |
| 13 | It concerned him the more to see that Titch , also , appeared to have no eyes for anything but the Wheel . |
| 14 | It was another of those things , like the green car , which made him a less than perfect Moslem . |
| 15 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 16 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 17 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 18 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 19 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 20 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 21 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 22 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 23 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 24 | It took him no more than a few seconds of the exchange to decide which voice was Kemp 's . |
| 25 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 26 | There do exist two or three letters from Christabel to Hearst — she even sent him a few poems in one , which he kept , fortunately for us . |
| 27 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 28 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |
| 29 | I saw him a few weeks ago . |
| 30 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |