Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not having torn him to pieces already ! ’
2 The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind .
3 Algerian Karim Ederesi , 20 , did n't know the emergency phone had connected him with police .
4 I 've sought him for years .
5 He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image .
6 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 .
7 ‘ I have n't seen him for ages .
8 I have n't seen him for ages .
9 I have n't seen him for months . ’
10 I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months .
11 Not seen him for months .
12 Instead of having Matt to myself , when I have n't seen him for months and months , I have to share him with this wretched woman who ca n't get her act together !
13 Have n't seen him for months . ’
14 He had n't seen him for years but knew of his bass playing .
15 ‘ Have n't seen him for years . ’
16 ‘ Have n't seen him for years , ’ said Coffin regretfully .
17 We have n't seen him for years the bloody queer .
18 He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks .
19 I have n't seen him in years , but he wo n't have changed .
20 ‘ Besides , 1 have n't seen him in weeks .
21 Geraldine had not seen him in pyjamas before .
22 They had n't seen him in months .
23 So he relaxes and enjoys a brief dance with her after she has fed him with cherries .
24 As a young man , it had been his recognition of the need for contemporary diction and contemporary imagery in poetry that had drawn him to sources as disparate as Baudelaire and John Davidson .
25 Bissell had bitten him with teeth composed of white aluminium .
26 On the Monday , though , Slater had been in the small steamy cafe and sandwich bar on Red Lion Street which he usually spent most of his term days in , and Graham had supplied him with cups of tea and expensive rounds of smoked salmon on granary bread while Slater slowly , teasingly , told him about Sara .
27 ‘ To a man who has been accustomed to obtain credit from those who have supplied him with goods ’ , wrote Thomas Farrow in The Money-Lender Unmasked ( 1895 ) ,
28 I 've told him for years , but I did n't want to hurt him because I loved him .
29 No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose .
30 Mr Mackie agreed that all three men had been quite happy to have the injection administered by Murray and that he had also consented whenever Murray had injected him with drugs .
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