Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 2 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 3 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 4 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 5 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 6 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 7 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |
| 8 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 9 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 10 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 11 | His round was made around a run of five 3s from the second to the sixth holes — that brought him to two under for the championship . |
| 12 | Now he staggered towards Holly , making a path between the tables and benches and the backs of sitting men that flanked him on one side , and the waiting line on the other . |
| 13 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 14 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 15 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 16 | Forsbrand came home in 30 for a 66 that put him on ten under par 134 but said : ‘ I 've never shot 29 for nine holes and I missed a four footer on the last . ’ |
| 17 | Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad . |
| 18 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 19 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 20 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 21 | He evidently intended that this should be the royal priest Eadsige , who took over some of Æthelnoth 's duties in 1035 and succeeded him in 1038 . |
| 22 | They tracked down Doisneau and met him in 1990 . |
| 23 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 24 | Speed played well , Dorigo looked like he was on drugs the way he was running around — at one point Breacker ( Headless chicken ) was thinking he had got past Dorigo/Speed and running towards the corner flag — Dorigo went into overdrive and caught him within 3 strides from a standing start ! ! |
| 25 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 26 | Marion searched for him in the crowded room , and found him at last , talking to Sue 's dad near the window . |
| 27 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 28 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 29 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 30 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |