Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I asked him how good his pianissimo was .
2 I found him half asleep and I thought it was you .
3 I felt he maintained a distance and because of that I found him more difficult to approach than Dalglish if there was anything I needed to discuss .
4 But I found him very stimulating to be with , full of ideas , I needed to meet such people .
5 ‘ I met him several times at balls and routs , and I found him very entertaining .
6 He was difficult sometimes — maddening sometimes — but he had , I always thought , a curious innocence of character so that you could n't be angry with him for long — and I found him always stimulating to be with — talkative , bursting with ideas and comments — and for a great deal of the time — just plain good fun to be with .
7 In spite of this phenomenal show record , I was never really inspired by this dog ; in fact , I found him quite coarse and plain , being rough in coat and straight in stifle .
8 In contrast to Wyndham Lewis , who when I invited him home expressed apprehension that he might have to meet my family ( a prospect which seemed slightly to unnerve him ) , Eliot showed no such anxiety about my people .
9 He two-putted and we hugged and I told him how proud I was .
10 I told him how uneasy I had become when I was approached or touched by anyone .
11 I told him how happy I was to be back in his country .
12 Never have I seen him so static onstage , so apparently unmoved by the whole experience of playing rock 'n' roll .
13 ‘ And Edgar wo n't listen when I tell him how happy I am !
14 No I find him quite helpful
15 Where I find him occasionally disappointing is in the dreamier world of the Gymnopédies and the more intriguing Sonneries de la Rose Croix ( one of the composer 's Rosicrucian works ) .
16 Curtis Strange : " I find him very funny .
17 I hurt him so bad he 's gone to hospital . ’
18 At first I thought him very plain , that is , for about three minutes : he is pale and thin , has a wide mouth , thick lips , and not very good teeth , longish loose-growing half-curling rough black hair .
19 I thought him very handsome when I was seven .
20 Merely because I reminded him how unlikely he was to catch an heiress . ’
21 ‘ Now , it had been years since I had seen Bartholomew Burghgesh and I considered him long dead , yet I am sure that man I glimpsed that cold December morning was Sir Bartholomew himself .
22 CLAUDIUS : With all my heart , and it doth content me To hear him so inclined .
23 Yeah , I think she made him very happy .
24 All contemporary accounts of Constanze 's character , except those originating from Leopold and Nannerl Mozart ( neither of whom ever really accepted her ) , together with the evidence of Mozart 's own letters to her , confirm that she made him as good a wife as he could have wished .
25 But she made him less formidable .
26 She found him physically attractive , but his languid , elegant and mannered demeanour irritated her .
27 She desired him , she found him physically attractive to a degree that still had the power to surprise her .
28 She found him physically attractive .
29 She found him utterly sympathetic and charming .
30 Besides , she thought , if Finn came back and she found him not repellent he would have been rendered kinder by his infidelity .
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