Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each person had thought that he or she knew him best and each person had felt he had the right to more sadness than the others . |
| 2 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 3 | With a mental shrug she tried to ensure she kept up , knowing that nothing irritated him more than to be kept waiting even a second when he was in this mood . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so terrified that I fought him all the way . |
| 5 | Beesley 's case offered corroboration : the hero of the Titanic was a blanket-forger and transvestite imposter ; how just and appropriate , therefore , that I fed him false cricket scores . |
| 6 | Why else should I still be yearning after a man whom I knew to be a murderer while shrinking from the innocent Syl whose only crime was that I found him unattractive ? |
| 7 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 8 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 9 | Benjamin became lost in his own thoughts so I left him alone and lay on my own bed thinking about Mathilda until the bell sounded for supper . |
| 10 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |
| 11 | So he would accept that she thought him good , whatever she meant by it , and he at once felt a curious sense of relief and surprise within himself . |
| 12 | She did n't know ; all she knew was that she adored him more than before and she wanted him more desperately , therefore inevitably she was going to be more hurt than the first time . |
| 13 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 14 | ‘ She indicated that she found him overbearing . |
| 15 | Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done . |
| 16 | ‘ Most people are wrong most of the time , ’ he said , with such firmness that she slid him another look , surprised ; he was strong behind his gentleness and hesitancy , she thought — strong in a way that was n't common . |
| 17 | ‘ He was at her , trying to make her say that she loved him better than she did me . |
| 18 | Yet he was her father , and she was aware , in this instant , that she loved him more than she had ever loved anyone on earth except herself ; more than husband , far more than children . |
| 19 | Maui claimed to lose it , so she offered him each of her fingers and toes , one by one , until she realised she had been tricked . |
| 20 | from Pilkingtons and there 's little , she said you would n't notice it but there 's little like , little things on and when he did the grouting yesterday she said that she said it was awful , she did n't like it at all so she told him this morning |
| 21 | If she told him once she told him two dozen times that he was quite the perfect host , and that he was n't to take this personally , but she wanted to be back in her own house , her own city , where she would feel most protected from the assassin . |
| 22 | When we originally talked to Barry about it , we already knew that the Prime Minister would be guest that night , so we told him all about it , and he had this great idea . |
| 23 | She came out and said he was definitely still in one piece but probably had cramp or pins and needles so we gave him some painkiller . |
| 24 | There were so many , moving so fast , that they made him dizzy . |
| 25 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 26 | Afterwards she felt that Sarah had deliberately steered the conversation away from Terry , and recalling her remark that they knew him better than she did , Anne felt uneasy without quite knowing why . |
| 27 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 28 | He knew then that they wanted him alive . |
| 29 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 30 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |