Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [adj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They thought he was a bit peculiar , maybe , but they 'd accepted him all the same .
2 He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew .
3 I 've given him all the figures .
4 Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off .
5 General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland .
6 That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion .
7 In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain .
8 Although she was not at ease herself and did not expect to be until she had told him all the painful things he would surely wish to know .
9 Men who had found him unsufferable a year or two ago began to see his abilities or his charm .
10 And a slight slip you know , had taken him half a thou over the bore .
11 It had taken him half an hour to get his hands and nails clean , using white spirit and a nailbrush as well as soap and water .
12 In Fredegar 's narrative Childeric was exiled from the Franks for his sexual profligacy , but he arranged with his faithful follower , Wiomad , that he would return when the latter had sent him half a coin which they had divided between them .
13 This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy .
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