Example sentences of "[vb past] him [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his mother , anxious when she could not make contact with him , reported him missing nine days later . |
| 2 | Once I even caught him buying tinned sardines — with all that fresh fish in the sea ! ’ |
| 3 | When W. H. Auden once found him playing that game and asked him why he seemed to relish it , he reflected gravely and then replied , " Well , I suppose it 's the nearest thing to being dead " . |
| 4 | ‘ Arazi came to today 's race after enduring all sorts of problems — the trip to America for the Kentucky Derby , a hard race at Ascot when he was n't right and an injury which stopped him running two weeks ago . |
| 5 | The arrest of King had been videotaped by an amateur cameraman , and the resulting footage showed him receiving 56 baton blows and being brutally kicked by police . |
| 6 | Wakelate left the room , and Cleo heard him making gruff remarks through the privy door on the landing outside . |
| 7 | She heard him making little noises with his lips and tongue as if preparing to speak . |
| 8 | I heard him giving many readings , and now of course they are on record ; but I think he was at his best — with every word clearly articulated — among a small group such as that at Kelham . |
| 9 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 10 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 11 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 12 | Woosnam , who was playing with Parry , salvaged a 73 which left him sharing fifth place with Price , four off the lead , which was rather better than it might have been . |