Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone claimed to have heard him on the radio from Darwin — but it was always someone at a third hand remove ; someone who had heard it from someone who had heard it from someone . |
| 2 | It was not a pleasant emotion , but it was a powerful enough one to have sustained him in the search when evidence was lacking . |
| 3 | What 's worse , it seems to have blinded him to the facts of Liverpool history . |
| 4 | Presumably he thought she ought to have let him into her room to make love to her ! |
| 5 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 6 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 7 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 8 | Almost nothing has been heard of Ben since he went went missing on Kos , although a British couple claimed to have seen him in August on the island of Lesbos . |
| 9 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 10 | Hill admitted too that his father would have been more than surprised to have seen him in action in Monaco three decades on from his supremacy in the 1960s . |
| 11 | The weight in his heart seemed to have tethered him to the pavement , and he had to force himself to turn away , and some seconds after she had disappeared through the doorway . |
| 12 | He 's alleged to have stabbed him to death following a lengthy legal dispute over access to children . |
| 13 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nobody seems to have told him about his humiliation . |
| 16 | I bred him and love the horse , and I 'm delighted to have sold him to an owner who will look after his interests . |
| 17 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 18 | But , feeling glad to have got him off the subject of how apparently her virginal innocence did not tie up with her being a married woman , ‘ Well , if you do n't mind , I 'll just collect my car and head back to England , and — ’ |
| 19 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 20 | The group claimed to have executed him in July 1989 in retaliation for Israel 's abduction of Sheihk Obeid . |
| 21 | The group claimed to have executed him in October 1985 following Israel 's air-raid on the PLO headquarters in Tunis . |
| 22 | She was damn lucky to have pulled him as a husband . |
| 23 | Of relics of ‘ Our Henry 's ’ birth , the chateau of Pau keeps a single , peculiar example : the large turtle-shell supposed to have served him for a cradle , once his grandfather had christened him by rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic and a dab of Jurançon wine . |
| 24 | As time passed he compared notes , revised his dosages and kept an eye on the testing programme , but the thought that it was wrong does not appear to have troubled him for long . |
| 25 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 26 | At the same time his status seems to have caused him to be associated with campaigns which took place after his death : the invasion of Italy by Buccelin , which rightly belongs in the reign of Theudebald , was assigned by Gregory to that of his father . |
| 27 | Comrade Huang is an older man whose general good sense and responsible outlook seem to have caused him to be regarded as a leader by the others ; Comrade Liu is a younger woman , who went to Colchester 3 years ago to study English , and whose father , it turns out , was also a university teacher of English — he studied at Edinburgh in 1947–8 . |
| 28 | The crucial importance of the stabilising influence of Rirette in Nizan 's personal development can not be overstated , and there are certainly grounds for drawing a parallel between , on the one hand , the blossoming at a distance of Nizan 's love and affection for Rirette , with the consequent calming of personal anxieties , and on the other , the burgeoning at a distance of his hatred and hostility for those political , social and cultural forces in French society which he considered to have led him to the brink of suicide and despair . |
| 29 | It was this challenge which seems to have led him in 1896 to call a meeting in Bride Street , London , of a few carefully chosen colleagues which resulted in the establishment of the International Federation of Ship , Dock and River Workers which was renamed in 1898 the International Transport Workers ' Federation . |
| 30 | Mr Boyle was alleged to have struck him with the crowbar in a row over the sale of T-shirts . |