Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I hardly got to know him at all . |
| 2 | Charles put on a brave face to the world , but secretly he was in turmoil for many , many months ; and one other person who helped see him through this period was Diana . |
| 3 | I tried to press him for some specifics , but he was n't saying much . |
| 4 | She had stood naked in front of him in the bedroom , tried to kiss him on another occasion and put her arms round him . |
| 5 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 6 | On a Saturday afternoon , Corporal Tambini tried to cure him of this structural malformation . |
| 7 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 8 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 9 | She 'd seen him with another woman when he was supposed to be away at a conference . |
| 10 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 11 | No doubt there was some poor woman in Australia with whom he 'd become involved and from whom he 'd run away when she 'd presented him with some difficult situation . |
| 12 | The notices were poor and Ken cocooned himself in one of those invisible cloaks that he believed protected him from any contact with the outside world . |
| 13 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 14 | She 'd taken him from the town and the friends that he knew and she 'd brought him to this great , dusty mausoleum of a place where he did n't even like to run around because the echo of his footsteps sounded too much like someone faceless who was following too close . |
| 15 | The figure of Moses , the key figure for Freud in Judaism , seemed to preoccupy him in these last years of his life , and it is only understandable that people see Freud as still wrestling with his own father in this intellectual activity . |
| 16 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 17 | They guaranteed to indemnify him against any financial loss . |
| 18 | And she really began to hate him with such little strength as she had left . |
| 19 | She leant down and started to lick out his ear , bit his lobes , started to tell him of all the things she had done with other men . |
| 20 | And when Benn started hitting him with those big shots in the 11th , the textbook should have gone out of the window for the animal instinct to take over but he did n't have it the way I had against Benn and Michael Watson , unfortunately . |
| 21 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 22 | It was purchased because the sound of the river made reaching him by any other means quite impossible . |
| 23 | She ached to remind him of all the wasted evenings with prospective investors : the long , boring meals with pompous bankers and their dull , provincial wives . |
| 24 | His success in summoning up the devil he knew blinded him to any awareness of his own part in bringing about the final outcome . |
| 25 | Henry 's wholehearted displays in such a variety of roles , allied to his self-effacing modesty , combined to endear him to all Palace fans of the mid-1980s . |
| 26 | Nigel 's wife often appeared to haunt him after that . |
| 27 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 28 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 29 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 30 | It certainly would not be the sinister Treelike beings who had regarded him with such terrible vengeance in their unnatural faces ! |