Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mosley did find kindred spirits in the Labour movement , some of whom followed him into the New Party and a smaller proportion into fascism , but although the party conference and the Labour movement in general were sympathetic to his practical suggestions , the Labour government rejected his proposals . |
| 2 | They had three sons and two daughters , all of whom predeceased him except his youngest son , John . |
| 3 | Here is one example of what the new crime amounted to : ‘ Suddenly set upon by two men , one of whom seized him by the throat and threw him upon the ground , whilst the other thrust a quantity of mud in his mouth ’ ( The Daily News , 15 December 1862 ) . |
| 4 | He also failed to mobilize a heavy turnout amongst black voters , many of whom criticised him for ignoring them in his efforts to woo the white rural electorate . |
| 5 | It does not take much to imagine the effect of this on a group of already dispirited players , all of whom held him in the warmest affection . |
| 6 | The sight of them filled him with pride . |
| 7 | Some of them poked him with sticks to see if he really was a savage and threw books shouting , ‘ Build us a tower . |
| 8 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 9 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 10 | This one act of his expelled him into the wilderness more forcibly than any other , just as it did the novelist George Gissing in England . |
| 11 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 12 | He also had a feeling for phrase and idiom and a very personal way with English , all of which endeared him to his audience . |
| 13 | Fraud investigators say he posted hundreds of fake job applications last year , a few in Russian , a few in Turkish — anything to impress the big oil companies , some of which flew him to Riyadh and Aberdeen for interviews . |
| 14 | Releasing her abruptly , fitzAlan pulled Isabel 's arms away from him and held them , gazing down at her face as if the sight of her tormented him beyond bearing and yet he still could not bring himself to look away . |
| 15 | The thought of it rocked him in his chair . |
| 16 | He was heading straight into the wind and the force of it buffeted him from side to side until his sense of direction became totally confused . |
| 17 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 18 | Two of us dragged him to his feet and the Section marched back to the barrack block . |
| 19 | The others looked uncomfortable too , and none of us joined him in his toast . |
| 20 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 21 | The sight of her legs as they stretched forward to keep up with him lifted him with exultation . |
| 22 | The people inside them reminded him of goldfish , seated in the windows , bereft of any privacy from prying eyes as they ate . |
| 23 | ‘ That Finn , Mauno Sarin , you asked me to handle when he arrived here , said Ed had been garrotted before someone threw him into the harbour , ’ Carver commented . |
| 24 | ‘ Those words , read literally , might be taken to indicate that the order for possession in itself deprived him of the protection of the Act . |
| 25 | I asked him to I told him to . |
| 26 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 27 | Love reaching out to him took him by the heart and wrung him . |
| 28 | This was a perpetual source of vexation to Mahmoud and his efforts to do something about it drove him towards reform at the political level — he was a member of the Nationalist Party — and perfectionism in his daily work . |
| 29 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 30 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |