Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 2 | The jury found him guilty on 23 charges in a 38-count indictment . |
| 3 | His fellow-curates found him liable to vast silences , during which he twisted a bit of cotton with the fingers of both hands . |
| 4 | No one believed him guilty of financial dishonesty but the governor , John Elphinstone ( thirteenth Baron Elphinstone , q.v. ) , demanded restitution of the money . |
| 5 | What excited him most of all was that these pieces , each so different , each showing a restless determination to experiment , all had the signature of Wyspianski . |
| 6 | Havvie Blaine disgusted him most of all . |
| 7 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 8 | Then , on the eve of the second Test in Madras , Gooch had his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn that laid him low for several days and was out of the match with diarrhoea and sickness that laid him low for several days . |
| 9 | Well it made him drowsy for one thing , it kept knocking him out . |
| 10 | I made him close to forty years old and that meant the stubby Mauser he was holding was in good hands . |
| 11 | As an ex employee , he 's loyal to the company , even though it made him redundant after 34 years . |
| 12 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 13 | He intrigued her , there was something about the way he acted , the way he spoke that made him different from all the other vagrants that she had met . |
| 14 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 15 | Burton travelled to observe and communicate , which made him different from most explorers of the day , but he too could be touched by the inexplicable fever of travel : ‘ … some thousand miles up a river with an infinitesimal prospect of returning ! |
| 16 | One was a big man with a bullet head and a short neck , with shoulders almost as broad as Ben 's ; but he had height with it , being all of six foot tall , which in itself made him different from most other men , for it was only here and there you would see his like . |
| 17 | The gaekwar of Baroda made him diwan in 1873 but Naoroji left after thirteen unhappy months . |
| 18 | He particularly enjoyed the fact that his vaguely cosmopolitan , vaguely raffish air not only made him attractive to certain high-born English gels , but led to such useful pillow-talk . |
| 19 | His quality of ruthless innocence rendered him unsuitable for most human intercourse . |
| 20 | Such tariffs undoubtedly made the lot of the British manufacturer much harder and the American tariffs hurt him most of all . |
| 21 | But when the woman dressed him later in rough cotton clothes , yellow with age , he looked exactly what he was — an orphan in a workhouse , ready for a life of misery , hunger , and neglect . |
| 22 | I bought him some of those cheekies Hey you know I 'm said I knew I forgotten something out of Gateways , do n't you ? |
| 23 | In recognition of his eminence within the trade , the Levant Company elected him assistant in 1653 , a post which he held until 1670 , except for a brief stint as deputy governor in 1661 . |
| 24 | In return , I gave him one of twelve tiny mouth-organs that Hohner had given me . |
| 25 | I drew him that , I gave him one of those [ pointing to the jumper he is wearing in the picture ] . |
| 26 | Harvey gave him one of those Sorbo-rubber helmets that paratroops wear on practice drops . |
| 27 | As I said Tillo ran him ragged at some stages in the game . |
| 28 | I Dreamed more bullets into the gun , and shot him full of more lead . |
| 29 | Matthew suffered from Severe Combined Deficiency Syndrome , which left him open to any infection . |