Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 2 | And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) . |
| 3 | This footslogging — and often freezing — circuit of Ireland , during which he relied entirely on motorists ' charity , provided him with much diverting material . |
| 4 | The touch of Asuryan was no longer so strong in his mind , and the Sword of Khaine no longer provided him with near limitless strength . |
| 5 | The fisherman 's wife , however , chastised him for this simple request and returned to the shore , there to harangue the Golden Fish with her demands for jewels , wealth and status . |
| 6 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 7 | I played one lad and beat him in three successive frames . |
| 8 | Her voice and the rattle of pots faded away into the house , and he heard , close to , Annie 's uncontrolled chortle as she approached him with some wicked intent . |
| 9 | Newton spent more time and energy on alchemical speculations than on the scientific discoveries which galvanised the Western world : Storr reconstructs the neurotic drive which impelled him to heroic intellectual feats . |
| 10 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 11 | That was Michael Willis 's line whenever I told him about some fresh disaster in the surf . |
| 12 | Zack told him in three angry sentences . |
| 13 | Andrée spoke of Saint-Simon and compared him to some English memoirists ; she spoke of the astonishing variety of the classical French novel , La Princesse des Clèves , Adolphe , Les Liaisons Dangereuses . |
| 14 | If it is then asked what drove him to this desperate end , Zande will refer you to the particular tensions and stresses of his life . |
| 15 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 16 | I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters . |
| 17 | Sarah affected him with such unexpected desire he could n't understand himself . |
| 18 | Rachel faced him across that beautiful living-room and knew her sensual lover had gone forever . |
| 19 | On 2 October 1991 Jordanian security forces arrested Muhammad al-Fasi , a Saudi Arabian businessman , and reportedly handed him to Saudi Arabian authorities at the al-Haditha crossing point on the Saudi/Jordanian frontier . |
| 20 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 21 | James I , when he came to the throne in 1603 , according to Isaacson ‘ admired him beyond all other divines , not only for his transcendent gift in preaching , but for his excellency and solidity in all kinds of learning , selecting him as his choicest instrument , to vindicate his regality against his foul-mouthed adversaries ’ . |
| 22 | He obstructed collection of ship money in 1638 and Poole returned him to both 1640 Parliaments . |
| 23 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 24 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 25 | She blamed him for all this . |
| 26 | Years later , she acknowledged the debt she owed him for those early lessons in self-determination . |
| 27 | They acquitted him of three further charges of indecency and one of buggery . |
| 28 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
| 29 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 30 | Bob Willis 's Test career came to a sad end at Headingley in 1984 , as Michael Holding hit him for five sixes . |