Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 2 | ‘ I thoroughly disagreed with him on numerous issues , ’ said Teller , ‘ to this extent I would like to see the vital interests of this country in hands which I understand better and therefore trust more . ’ |
| 3 | No longer does he cling on to the status that he wrested from him with such arrogance and cruelty . |
| 4 | Rose bent over him with pure attention . |
| 5 | Down and down the weight dragged him , to where strange fish swam past and gaped at him with milky , quivering eyes . |
| 6 | She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned . |
| 7 | Eric and I first played with him in 1936 for the Young Players of Surrey . |
| 8 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 9 | His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish . |
| 10 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 11 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 12 | At once , it fascinated him : a country and a city that were so French , and so Arab , in which two cultures very different from one another seemed to him at first to blend triumphantly . |
| 13 | When I first came across him in 1982 he was playing for Exeter University in a sevens game at Twickenham . |
| 14 | Taxi driver Peter Simpson said that two cars raced past him at high speed . |
| 15 | Paige writhed beneath him in mute appeal for the release they both craved . |
| 16 | He contracted with him in 1775 to come to the capital , and put him with M. Francoeur , to conduct [ battre la mesure ] . |
| 17 | She separated from him in 1929 and later divorced him . |
| 18 | Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance , ranging from lengthy essays , autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers . |
| 19 | And what happened to him after that ? |
| 20 | Alain came in without even knocking and she turned on him with furious hurt . |
| 21 | Perkin on her other side was saying contritely , ‘ Sorry , darling , sorry , ’ and she turned to him with ever-ready forgiveness , the adult of the pair . |
| 22 | She thought for a moment and turned to him with flushed cheeks . |
| 23 | She lived with him for 11 years . |
| 24 | His fiancee , Julie Craig , 26 , who lived with him at 34 Churchill Drive , Ardrossan , said that her boyfriend had gone wild in hospital when she visited him . |
| 25 | In fact , Charles 's highly publicized conversion to vegetarianism can more properly be laid at the door of his former bodyguard , Paul Officer who frequently argued with him during long car journeys about the virtues of a non-meat diet . |
| 26 | Big Percy Cherrett fed off him for two seasons but it was Peter Simpson who benefited most from the work of the talented left-winger and it is no coincidence that Peter scored more goals in each of the three seasons in which Clarke was his team-mate than in any of the succeeding campaigns . |
| 27 | The foundation is a complex of buildings which includes Son Abrines , the family home still occupied by Pilar , the artist 's widow , Son Boter , the old stone house which Miró employed as his graphics studio , coating its walls in charcoal sketches , the studio which Josep Luis Sert constructed for him in 1954–56 and where he worked until his death in 1983 , and the new exhibition centre of Sert 's pupil , Rafael Moneo , Dean of the Graduate Design School in Harvard . |
| 28 | Aye you never heard of him after that . |
| 29 | But this was almost certainly an ex post joke , unless it was the only explanation he could offer for the remarkably undistinguished collection of ministers who governed with him in 1923 , most of whom he had in any event inherited from Bonar Law . |
| 30 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |