Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 2 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 3 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 4 | She did n't know whether it was from the night that she had overheard his conversation with her mother in the bedroom , or when she saw him fling that shovel at the young man who , she knew , could have felled him with one blow , that she had lost all respect for him . |
| 5 | More than a hundred victims have now approached him for legal advice and doctors are still seeing new cases six weeks after chryptosporidium was first identified in the Farmoor reservoir . |
| 6 | And he remembered with satisfaction , because it proved that he was not at fault , that Miriam and Louise had both approached him with some wild tale about Miss Hughes leading their brothers into debauchery and sensuality . |
| 7 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 8 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 9 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
| 10 | Germon and Shane Thomson are two of the gentlemen of New Zealand cricket , and one run later Germon took Thomson 's word for it that he had caught him at extra cover , and walked . |
| 11 | ‘ Someone 's tipped him off that Sabine Jourdain was painting Durance 's pictures . |
| 12 | He 'd helped her through a bad patch and she 'd been grateful , but she 'd never really considered him in any other light . |
| 13 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 14 | She had n't missed him at all when he died , but now she realized for the first time that she had lost her father . |
| 15 | Kirov had missed him at first glance , understandably , for-the young pilot was clad in a pair of light grey slacks and a faintly-patterned blue sports shirt . |
| 16 | At school , the few masters who had noticed him at all had tried vaguely to direct him towards science . |
| 17 | His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’ |
| 18 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 19 | He had always been there and when she was little she had worshipped him with all the adulation of any little girl for a big , brave , older brother . |
| 20 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 21 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 22 | But he will have to wait to get into the action — an ankle injury has sidelined him for two weeks . |
| 23 | Defender Ian Harold starts a three-match ban , while player-boss John Carroll is again doubtful with the Achilles injury that has sidelined him in recent games . |
| 24 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 25 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 26 | His education had not prepared him for this in any way . |
| 27 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 28 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 29 | Sir Charles , whose practice as a family solicitor in Hertfordshire had not prepared him for this sort of thing , was losing control . |
| 30 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |