Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Maggot became too boring about football I told him cricketing stories until he shut up . |
| 2 | Rusty Conway becomes one of Serena 's patients because he has had a spell of extreme absent-mindedness which made him incapable of carrying out his work . |
| 3 | Cale became famous for violent demonstrations on stage ; there were plenty of screams , stage props , a green surgeon 's outfit , the odd tooth-spitting , the beheaded ( but long dead ) chicken episode which lost him half his band , the time he wore the Cambridge Rapist 's mask … |
| 4 | Montgomerie was upset after a second-round 77 in Agadir which left him 14 shots behind then leader , Jamie Spence , and criticised the set-up of the tournament . |
| 5 | She shot him a glance which made him sorry for asking . |
| 6 | He filled six key posts ( all of which were election-related ) , including that of Prime Minister , with non-party figures , an action which earned him warm acclaim from the main opposition parties both of which pledged full support for the new administration and ended their boycott of the National Assembly . |
| 7 | In addition , my Grandfather , for twenty-odd years prior to his death , at the age of seventy two in 1907 , suffered from a chest condition which incapacitated him each winter . |
| 8 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 9 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 10 | As a result they offered him small parts in the next two films in which Ken would star . |
| 11 | Maj. Miguel Nieto , the Chief of Operations of the National Police , was dismissed on June 18 and his immediate arrest was ordered , following government investigations which held him responsible for the failure of the security forces to quell the disturbances . |
| 12 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |
| 13 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 14 | But for Sergeant Geoff Newitt , from Great Milton in Oxfordshire , memories of the night last July which earned him this honour are never far from his mind . |
| 15 | Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore . |
| 16 | Lucier had taken himself up to the gallery of the chapel — a climb which cost him all the strength that was left him . |
| 17 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |
| 18 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 19 | He used his handsome appearance to seduce an ogress who bore him three dreadful children , FENRIR the Wolf , the Midgard Snake and HEL , all of whom caused travail to the other gods . |
| 20 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
| 21 | It was Frank Foley who told him this , in his small office in Broadway . |
| 22 | On the spur of the moment I offered him 40 — he almost wept in gratitude . |
| 23 | Subsequently , continuing on occasion to work in partnership with his brother , he developed a business which made him one of the most successful of such craft-based figures in English history . |
| 24 | He explained that part of his treatment was a steroid which made him hyperactive and sweaty , and cursed the fact that he could n't keep still . |
| 25 | In 1642 Goddard married Mary , daughter of John Greene , serjeant-at-law , a match which brought him useful connections , notably with Edward Bysshe [ q.v. ] , who was appointed Garter king of arms by Parliament in 1646 . |
| 26 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 27 | Captured by the Japanese in 1941 , David was interned in Shanghai for nine months , and contracted the sclerosis which caused him difficult last years and finally ended his life . |
| 28 | At this moment she wanted him more than she had ever wanted anything in her life . |
| 29 | Given the hon. Gentleman 's background , he will clearly represent the constituents who elected him last week . |
| 30 | And later that night I saw him dead . ’ |