Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 32 | But for some reason , Tina had adopted him in her rough , kindly way , and for the last few months school life had been bearable . |
| 33 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 34 | Ronnie is just glad it 's all over , and aware that his past acting career had prepared him for his ordeal . |
| 35 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 36 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 37 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 38 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
| 39 | Jim , who gave a lively impromptu speech after chairman , Hugh Jamieson had presented him with his award , was in typically dismissive mood about his own talents . |
| 40 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
| 41 | Until she had seen him without his clothes on — so she had told herself — Jessica had not been sure . |
| 42 | Slater had seen him on his BMW bike , or just getting off it . |
| 43 | ‘ Because she 's seen him with her own eyes ! |
| 44 | ‘ If she 's seen him with her own eyes she knows which restaurant it is . ’ |
| 45 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 46 | I have seen him with his girls in the fields , and when he knows I am watching he kisses them . |
| 47 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 48 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 49 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 50 | She had startled him with her headlong flight . |
| 51 | And to have met him on her own terms , or by accident , would have been one thing , and a delight , but to look as though she were some silly teenager following an idol … well , that was entirely another . |
| 52 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 53 | I even know , thanks to Montesquieu , that one may be a Persian , but as for Man , I declare that I have never met him in my life ; if he exists it is without my knowledge.1 |
| 54 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 55 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 56 | Li Shai Tung stood , leaning heavily upon the silver-headed cane he had come to use so often these days ; the cane with the dragon 's head Han Ch'in had bought him on his fiftieth birthday . |
| 57 | He was planning on a shave and a slow , hot bath ; he might even throw in some of that stuff that Wayne had bought him for his birthday , that came in a dubious-looking novelty bottle shaped like a tiger 's head . |
| 58 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 59 | But more importantly she had buried him in her heart . |
| 60 | Then , on went the lights followed by another scream from ‘ Lousy Lou ’ — someone had relieved him of his tins as well . |