Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 2 | Robert can see Henry 's star quality and has already aligned him with an animal talent agency ( Satch 's Animals ) , although his one date with the cameras so far — for a Lucozade commercial — was n't exactly a smash . |
| 3 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 4 | He does n't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm afraid nobody has ever seen him in church . |
| 6 | Kite had to win in New Orleans to be invited but could only manage joint 12th with Severiano Ballesteros , whose last round of 69 has also put him in good heart . |
| 7 | He had pride at stake , deposed champion Senna to humble — and a point to underline to the team that has negligently abandoned him to a new career in America . |
| 8 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 9 | GM has now accused him of taking industrial secrets as well . |
| 10 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 11 | Turnour has changed from being relaxed and comfortable with what he was about to do to feeling uneasy in a strange environment which has now put him in a bad mood . |
| 12 | If that decision has now put him in the casualty ward , it has equally kept him from the sanatorium . |
| 13 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 14 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 15 | ‘ No , I think I 'd better put him in touch with you . ’ |
| 16 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 17 | We 'd just settled him along the back seat when I realised that he would need some money . |
| 18 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd even wanted him to . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 21 | I 'd never seen him in anything as soft-looking , as human as the pair of scruffy trousers , open-necked shirt and dressing-gown he wore then . |
| 22 | ‘ I wish to hell I 'd never sent him to your school . ’ |
| 23 | Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University . |
| 24 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 25 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 26 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 27 | I asked Garth , quintessentially English , what could have possibly drawn him to America . |
| 28 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 29 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 30 | The President accepted the law , but under protest , delighted that the Assembly had thereby provided him with a weapon which could be turned against them when the need arose . |