Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] him [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the last movement by the spider that recalled to Quinn the tiny detail that eluded him last night . |
| 2 | Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage . |
| 3 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 4 | James was continuing to play cricket throughout this period having become a member of the Maple Club , and while his reputation as a player was growing it was his overall knowledge of the game that brought him most attention . |
| 5 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 6 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 7 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 8 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 9 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 10 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 11 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
| 12 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 13 | Then I played a trick on Michael , who was a great chatter-up of girls at that time , and told him this person in costume was very keen on him , so he began to chat him up . |
| 14 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 15 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 16 | Henri Nallet , then French Agriculture Minister , apologized to his UK counterpart , John Gummer , at a meeting in Brussels on Sept. 24 and assured him that lorry drivers who had been attacked in France would be compensated . |
| 17 | I undid my thermos and poured him some milk . |
| 18 | Still holding the old man 's shirtfront , Ellwood yanked him back to the couch and threw him full length . |
| 19 | She stood up , smiling acidly , and bade him good day . |
| 20 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Oracle has plucked top product designer Karl Hageman from ASK and named him chief design architect of Oracle Manufacturing . |
| 22 | I always wrote the replies and told him the news and reassured him that Mum was watching his widow , which it gave her great pleasure to do . |
| 23 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 24 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 25 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 26 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 27 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 28 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 29 | Mrs ze Schluderpacheru had taken pity on him , and gave him some sweeping-up chores in return for room and board and the occasional session with Fat Juanita . |
| 30 | Felix 's wife began to recite her poetry , and wondered about his air fare , and gave him some coffee . |