Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 2 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 3 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 4 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 5 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 6 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 7 | ‘ but he was wearing a collar and I 'd tied him to a lamppost . ’ |
| 8 | And he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenged him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 9 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 10 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 11 | They 'd kept him in a kiosk on Brighton front day and night waiting for the Germans to invade . |
| 12 | Until then they had treated him with a mixture of sympathy as a man caught up , by line of duty , in a political imbroglio , and suspicion at what he might do to make things worse . |
| 13 | But he swore at a spectator who had provoked him during a game against Essex at Ilford and again on Sunday when he was racially abused on returning to the pavilion after scoring a half century which helped Middlesex clinch the Sunday League crown . |
| 14 | Dalgliesh , who had heard him at a police concert , never ceased to be surprised that so narrow a chest and so slight a frame could produce such a powerful organ-toned bass . |
| 15 | He gestured across the lawn that ran down to a stream and then up again to his own cottage , which Thomas had given him as a wedding present . |
| 16 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 17 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 18 | When Sophie had joined him in a waltz … |
| 19 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 20 | This had dropped him at a garage in Cromcruach and had then mysteriously vanished before he could offer his thanks . |
| 21 | The young paratrooper turned to look at me , his eyes alarmed , as if he expected somehow to see that his buddies had caught him in a moment of vulnerability . |
| 22 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 23 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 24 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 25 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 26 | As the hangers-on increased , he became bitterly aware that his inheritance , far from liberating him , had trapped him in a role he could not forsake . |
| 27 | Society and its rules had trapped him in a corner . |
| 28 | The Traverse Theatre had been born in the Grass Market in 1962 and that , together with his involvement in the Edinburgh Festival , had sucked him into a travelling show of poets , writers , actors , directors , and hype-merchants from across the western — and sometimes eastern world . |
| 29 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 30 | He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion . |