Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain .
2 This led him to numerous adventures in penetrating to Kabul and beyond , which have been described by Smith , Barber-Lomax , and especially Alder , who studied much of the terrain , in enthusiastic detail .
3 This led him in 1935 to discuss a newly ‘ discovered ’ agricultural Papuan tribe , the description of whose civilization Eliot utilized to criticize what he saw as some of the indulgences of his own inorganic civilization during the unemployment of the thirties .
4 This brought him to 45 .
5 Some put him at average height , others said he was a tall man .
6 And this stood him in good stead when he moved to the Darlington area .
7 Thus lie has no right to re-sell the goods other than that allowed him by later subsections of section 48 .
8 His final round of 73 left him on 279 , five strokes behind the winner , Australian Peter Fowler , who shot 67 for a two-stroke triumph .
9 The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church .
10 Ian Woosnam 's 69 put him on two under , Colin Montgomerie is one under after a 68 , while defending champion Nick Faldo ( 69 ) and Sam Torrance ( 70 ) are level par , Peter Baker ( 70 ) two over and Mark James ( 71 ) four over .
11 Cottrell 's 82 left him in fifth place , along with Tim Paterson of Letherhead , with his Cheshire captain Phil Bailey of Caldy and another Cheshire player Gareth Bradley of Bramhall in a group on 302 .
12 Alec Guinness , who first met him at this time , considers that reading poetry on radio was the best thing he did .
13 ‘ Players are overpaid , pampered prima donnas , ’ he says , with a bluntness once very familiar to League secretary Alan Hardaker who in 1970 suspended him for ten weeks .
14 Although he had recently been converted , it was Paisley 's conservative attack on unreliable unionist leaders which first drew him to Free Presbyterianism .
15 One had him by one arm and the other his other arm .
16 Sadly Cottrell slumped on the final afternoon to total 300 , while Nowicki 's 70 put him on 291 , two strokes in front of MacPherson .
17 That left him with severe deafness .
18 It has now been shown that Ramsay continued to develop and refine his style until an injury to his painting arm in March 1773 prevented him from further work .
19 The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound .
20 Most held him in some awe — fear , too , whenever he was on the road .
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