Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His silence and inertia would have only made him more lifelike and I would , at once , have been treated as ‘ one of the girls ’ . |
| 2 | The disappointment of not being selected for Rosemary 's Baby had merely made him more determined to change his life . |
| 3 | His lack of humbug about political balance has always made him more honest than all the employees of BBC Current Affairs awaiting with glee the Kinnock years . |
| 4 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 5 | ‘ Brother Tutilo has not been in my especial care until this journey , ’ he said carefully , ‘ but I have always found him truly devoted to our house of Ramsey . |
| 6 | Brutus says that Caesar 's feelings have never moved him so much that he had lost his sense of reason . |
| 7 | I 'd never seen him so strange before . ’ |
| 8 | His face was serene ; Harry had never seen him so content . |
| 9 | Jane had never seen him so depressed , his anger frequently spilling over into words to her , as the dwellings went up with hideous and indecent haste , flaunting a flag : ‘ Waterloo Homes ’ right next to his drive . |
| 10 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 11 | I 'd never seen him so happy . |
| 12 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 13 | Mungo had never seen him so cheerful , even though he had failed to buy anything for himself . |
| 14 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 15 | Whatever the extent of his self-inflicted frailty , I 'd never seen him as good-tempered as he had been recently , or as nervously loquacious . |
| 16 | He 'd been so angry ; she had never seen him quite that way before . |
| 17 | I have never known him so happy . ’ |