Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , and in acknowledgment of his work as joint secretary of the Tutorial Classes Committee and for his duties in connection with the annual Cambridge Summer School Pateman also received a substantial honorarium which provided him with some security as his salary as District Secretary was not infrequently in arrears . |
| 2 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 3 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 4 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 5 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 6 | I remember , one bloke , mind-reader he was — Steenie booked him for some Variety bill , forget where it was now . |
| 7 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 8 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 10 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 11 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 12 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 13 | He tied him to some trolleys ! |
| 14 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 15 | Smith 's wife died in 1825 ; this loss made him for some time anxious to resign , and may help to account for the relative lack of distinction of his period of office . |
| 16 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 17 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 18 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 19 | But it hurt him in some way to admit that one of his key men came from the wrong end of the Bible , so to speak . |
| 20 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 21 | In truth , one can remember once , in the professional 's shop at Augusta , finding the great Gary Player thoughtfully fingering a set of Cleveland woods which reminded him of some Ben Hogan woods he had once owned . |
| 22 | The thought that Ace could go bad rankled him for some reason , and he mouthed a silent prayer that her judgment would remain sound . |
| 23 | In retirement Leslie launched the Oswestry Festival of Village Choirs , which absorbed him for some years until underfunding brought it to an end . |
| 24 | Most held him in some awe — fear , too , whenever he was on the road . |