Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 2 | The Norwich City and Scotland striker , a figure of such unmitigated misfortune that money deserted him at the height of what ought to have been a highly lucrative and rewarding career . |
| 3 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 4 | Happily they lived together for several weeks , until Killigrew told his young bride that duty called him to town . |
| 5 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 6 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 7 | The King and Queen loaded him with wealth and honours but Columbus wanted even more . |
| 8 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 9 | Lam 's biography seems tailor-made for todays ' infatuation with multiculturalism : he was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Creole mother , he was a Roman Catholic fascinated by Santeria ( Cuban animism ) , his studies and work took him to France , Spain , the United States and the Caribbean , and each of his three wives came from a different European country . |
| 10 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
| 11 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 12 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 13 | Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza . |
| 14 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 15 | Fife and Drum followed him with their eyes , showing no surprise . |
| 16 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 17 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 18 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 19 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |
| 20 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 21 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 22 | Minton 's virtuoso performances with pencil or pen and ink commended him as a teacher . |
| 23 | Then his own wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood , and he began to settle down again . |
| 24 | His eyes sparkled with delight as her mannerisms and voice reminded him of just how attractive he found Englishwomen . |
| 25 | His dress , title , manner and reputation protected him from her range of accusations . |
| 26 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 27 | He began to put on airs and think he was a grown-up who could boss us around until Dad checked him for it . |
| 28 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 29 | The sound of a horse and chaise brought him to his feet . |
| 30 | After the darkness and coolness the light and heat struck him like a blow . |