Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Failure led him to mass manipulation and an attempt to revolutionize British politics from outside the system . |
| 32 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 33 | His wrathful imagination led him to grotesque ideas … |
| 34 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 35 | The plaintiff encouraged him in this behaviour . |
| 36 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 37 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 38 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 39 | After murdering some of his art-loving favourites in 1482 , one group imprisoned him in reasonable comfort in Edinburgh castle and formed a provisional government . |
| 40 | Why the horror , why the compulsive fascination , by what despairing route had this new and unexpected compulsion carried him through semi-tropical plants in a glass lift to an afternoon such as he would sworn never to attend — he did not know . |
| 41 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 42 | The captain of the escort led him to one side , explaining . |
| 43 | The following March Bob Champion rode him into third place behind Alverton in 1979 the Cheltenham Gold Cup ( at 40–1 ) and the month after that Aldaniti ran second to Fighting Fit in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 44 | His interest in transferring aquatinted designs to pottery led him in 1771 to approach Josiah Wedgwood [ q.v. ] , who after considerable interest finally lost patience with the headstrong Burdett , who had hopes of years of lucrative work from his process . |
| 45 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 46 | His wife predeceased him in 1841 , leaving no children . |
| 47 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 48 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 49 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 50 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 51 | Terry Melchett , the supermarket manager , whose wife left him for another woman , gave me a hard shove in the small of the back . |
| 52 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 53 | Yet his storming finish carried him into third place , a head and 1 ½ lengths behind two super-fit hurdlers , Cruising Altitude ( rec 6lb ) and Nomadic Way ( rec 10lb ) . |
| 54 | Her indulgence left him without any need . |
| 55 | In March 1988 the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to 18 years ' imprisonment , upheld in May 1989 by the Supreme Court . |
| 56 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 57 | ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night . |
| 58 | When the Central Authority carpeted him for this , he stated that he had done it both to meet statutory obligations and to make faster progress on rural electrification than agreed . |
| 59 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 60 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |