Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] him [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was presumably Bruce Davidson , who admired and was annoyed by Francesca in about equal measure , and therefore took an unremitting interest in all her activities , who had favoured him with this . |
| 3 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 4 | Again , Karr had prepared him for this . |
| 5 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |
| 6 | What had made him like this ? she pondered . |
| 7 | He wished the coroner had told him about this ! |
| 8 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 9 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 10 | He felt that the forces that had brought him to this narrow corner of a Neapolitan street — the wish , on the one hand , to track down Elsie and now the fear , on the other , that this search would lead him to harm — these forces might hold him there , his foot on the edge of the pavement overhanging the choked and filthy gutter , in a kind of uneasy equilibrium and he might stay there for a long , long time . |
| 11 | What , she wondered , had brought him to this ungainly death ? |
| 12 | Leith was n't embarrassed , just saddened that his love for her friend had brought him to this , as he revealed how , for fear of losing what little chance he had with Rosemary , he had kept quiet about his love when he 'd wanted to shout it from the rooftops . |
| 13 | He was fretted by the thought of Kate , back at the scene of crime by now , and he felt a spurt of resentment against Dalgliesh who had involved him in this irrelevant mess . |
| 14 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 15 | In a letter to Charles Empson , the Newcastle bookseller , dated 1 October 1831 , when he was eight parts into the Parrots , and Gould , who had overtaken him by this time , was already ten parts into his own publication , Lear complains : |