Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 2 | Nobody has seen him since that day . |
| 3 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 4 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 5 | Where the old badger is coming from Bill Morrison 's motto in life is ‘ never volunteer , never refuse ’ , a policy which has landed him in some of the hottest seats in the profession , as he tells Julia Irvine |
| 6 | The press scoffed at his walks in the Kalahari Desert , at his fascination with lost and ancient tribes ; but experiences like that , plus a lifetime of travelling all over the world , seeing underdeveloped and overdeveloped countries and every kind of political regime , has brought him to this viewpoint . |
| 7 | Because Mr has represented him , Mr said before that he he thought it was as duty solicitor that he , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor but , he is represented under legal aid though this defendant by a firm of solicitors in Birmingham and he 's anxious to be committed for trial today . |
| 8 | He , he has represented him at some stage as duty solicitor . |
| 9 | Mr F , 35 has an alcohol problem and his wife , 32 , has supported him through many difficult periods . |
| 10 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 11 | The £6 million Juventus player has finally been forced to accept that the cartilage damage which has troubled him for several weeks requires surgery . |
| 12 | " I think the American woman has upset him in some way , " she continued in a quiet voice . |
| 13 | Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got . |
| 14 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 15 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 16 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 17 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 18 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 19 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 20 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure he could have saved him with all the modern equipment we have . |
| 22 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 23 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 24 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 25 | How on earth could she have accused him over that conversation with Salvo ? |
| 26 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 27 | Another member of the Squadron , air bomber Colin Gifford , remembers Johnson declaring Sugar the best aeroplane on the Squadron after having got him through some violent evasive action one night . |
| 28 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 29 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 30 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |