Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reid continued to leave him out and eventually sold him to Chelsea . |
| 2 | The plea or defence to this was that the notes were made jointly and severally by the defendant 's father , John Revill , and by Samuel Revill , as well as by the defendant , and that before the action the plaintiff , without the defendant 's knowledge or consent , struck out the name of Samuel Revill on the notes and wholly discharged him from liability . |
| 3 | That he opposed Winchelsey earlier only aligned him with popes and realists ; that his appointment to Canterbury involved both the exclusion of a saintly scholar and expedient intervention by the pope was hardly of his doing or proof of his unsuitability ; that he readily undertook to secure taxes from reluctant clergy only looks unprincipled against the background of thirteenth-century prelates who had yet to adjust to the vast needs and new methods of kings everywhere . |
| 4 | She constantly pestered him with telephone calls , messages and even turned up at his home . |
| 5 | Raider Terence Joseph , 27 , ran off , but was caught after TV 's Crime Monthly showed him on security film . |
| 6 | The thought suddenly spurred him into action . |
| 7 | Those who met him or merely saw him on BBC 's What 's My Secret ( he had burnt £100 million ) would have seen that straight away . |
| 8 | We really only knew him through childhood over-the-counter dealings smiling , ever-patient , avuncular . |
| 9 | Sometimes her beauty so took him by surprise , that he lost the thread of speech . |
| 10 | Innocent " postulated " Mauger , i.e. using his plenitude of power , he personally nominated him as bishop , dispensing him from his impediment . |
| 11 | He had been out and was coming in , although the way he walked suggested that going out had not been a great success , and that not much awaited him at home . |
| 12 | Prosperity eventually drove him to expenditure , acquiring servants and carriages , and building Highfield House , with its billiard-room , library , ornamental gardens , and lodge . |
| 13 | The regime thus charged him with damage of government property and jailed him for a few months until he was released under a general amnesty . |
| 14 | There were signs that Waterloo Boy was past his best for the season and those were emphasised when Katabatic easily beat him at Cheltenham in April . |
| 15 | Lazarus 's business ambitions soon elevated him from storeman to lumber merchant , thence to a partnership in the coal industry which became his sole business — L. Cohen and Son — after a few years , and hence to a high-profile dredging company which could boast that it had kept every one of the lifelines of the young nation — the St. Lawrence tributaries between Lake Ontario and Quebec — open . |
| 16 | His boy was a smashing , dark-eyed lad named Drake Stephen Robert , but the dog — whose full name was Sergeant Major — just knew him as Master . |
| 17 | His 10,000-mile electoral odyssey , which started in Mrs Thatcher 's birthplace of Grantham and took him to more than 60 constituencies , finally brought him to Dulwich , just up the road from his predecessor 's Prime Ministerial bolthole . |
| 18 | INTREPID Peter Bottomley , former scourge of the dozy British motorist , has not abandoned his life 's work just because Her Indoors shunted him from Transport to Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | Hekmatyar retorted that Rabbani had no right to dismiss Fareed and that he no longer recognized him as President . |
| 20 | In one of her braver moods , Pat once asked him about homosexuals . |
| 21 | He was now 25 years old and the episode on the island still haunted him at nights . |
| 22 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 23 | He had reasons other than supernatural ones : Bothwell soon escaped into the Borders to cause further disturbances , twice forced his way into Holyroodhouse to plead with and simultaneously threaten the king , and once cornered him in Falkland palace . |
| 24 | Adam Gopnik actually once compared him to William Blake , saying Steinberg could , like Blake , ‘ make the life of the mind visible … take metaphors and abstract ideas and turn them into drawings . ’ |
| 25 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 26 | Illness permanently trapped him in Whitehaven on a rare visit in 1698 . |
| 27 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 28 | This four-weekly experience always sent him to bed with a migraine for the rest of the day . |
| 29 | When he learnt that Bobby played the trumpet , he promptly took him to Stravinsky 's Petrushka and shared with him his passion for Sibelius and Bach as well as his fanatical admiration for Fats Waller , Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway . |
| 30 | He seems to have grown up rather a solitary boy , and afterwards not by nature a businessman — unlike his brother , who quickly outstripped him in enterprise , property , and prosperity . |