Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 2 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 3 | I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters . |
| 4 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 5 | Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt . |
| 6 | I dressed him in this huge pink shirt with maroon spots on , with a big maroon and pink ruff and little knee britches in grey with red velvet stripes on them . |
| 7 | I w , but I liked him in that one on a Friday night . |
| 8 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 9 | Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past . |
| 10 | The thing which kept him in such a feverish state was the unmistakable message her brown eyes had sent him as they stood so close together outside her door . |
| 11 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 12 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 13 | Peter Yeo , who knew him in this over-candid , over-emphatic mood , decided to prod gently . |
| 14 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 15 | She saw him in all his beauty , grace and arrogance — physically the most nearly perfect human being she had ever seen . |
| 16 | But he blamed Graveney for the furore : ‘ It was not the ICC who put him in this position but Tom himself . |
| 17 | ‘ Nature-lover , ’ he teased , and she knew then that she held him in some quite high regard . |
| 18 | With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 19 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |