Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His support for Iraq has won him backing from all quarters , from western-educated intellectuals to Muslim Brothers . |
| 2 | I 've let him go pending further enquiries — he set his solicitor on me . |
| 3 | Peter knew that Julian gambled , but he had n't expected him to gamble to that level , and certainly not to use the shop as security . |
| 4 | To her annoyance , although quite what she 'd expected him to do after that she could n't think , Tammuz grinned . |
| 5 | She had caught him flirting with another woman . |
| 6 | He wondered what on earth had made him talk like that and why had he told McEllhoney of all people ? |
| 7 | She had never seen him engaged in such mundane activity , and yet he did not seem to –ind her presence an embarrassment . |
| 8 | Carrie had often seen him sit like that , fondling one of Hepzibah 's chickens . |
| 9 | Of course , you may retort , as did Mr Graham whenever I expounded such a line during those enjoyable discussions by the fire , that if I am correct in what I am saying , one could recognize a great butler as such only after one had seen him perform under some severe test . |
| 10 | Len was different ; she had never seen him look at another girl like that . |
| 11 | Jessamy remembered all the times she had seen him look like that in the past , when he had n't wanted her to know what he was thinking or feeling . |
| 12 | years which had seen him play in 62 Tests and make 189 dismissals , at the time the West Indian record by a street . |
| 13 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 14 | How she would have loved to have seen him stumble like some lesser mortal . |
| 15 | They are the best , they 're made in Smithfield , Smithfield market , and they 're the best ones yo I certainly have n't seen him come across any that are better . |
| 16 | H This Contract shall represent all the terms agreed between the parties hereto and the buyer hereby admits that no statement made by the seller or his agent has induced him to enter into this Contract except written statements , if any , made by the seller 's conveyancers . |
| 17 | Stuttgart , beaten by Leeds in the European Cup earlier this season , have closely monitored his progress at Carrow Road and have had him watched on several occasions . |
| 18 | Shallowness had saved Beador — that very shallowness which had enabled him to engage in such monstrous debts when he had nothing to meet them but his partner 's money . |
| 19 | He had great respect for Palmerston , but ‘ after the speeches he had heard him deliver on this subject , he would be extremely sorry to obey his edicts on matters of taste ’ . |
| 20 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 21 | Jane had never heard him speak with such enthusiasm about anybody before . |
| 22 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 23 | Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face . |
| 24 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 25 | One day , an important but superstitious client cancelled his insurance policy when the pen Waterman had given him to sign with refused to work . |
| 26 | Greed has sometimes led him to trade for two licensed dealers at once . |
| 27 | Mr Major was saved from a crushing defeat that could have forced him to quit after several leading Tory Eurosceptics yielded to unprecedented arm-twisting from Government whips and constituency chairmen to back down . |
| 28 | At the end of the day Child and I were cursing our luck and Douglas Hamilton was waxing lyrical about the placidity of the beasts , who had allowed him to come within six yards of them . |
| 29 | So this is what has kept him employed through these ‘ misspent ’ years : he has been learning to see , and to live . |
| 30 | There 's no way you could have kept him hidden for this long , and Moshe-Rabaan would have noticed any excess oxygen usage , so he 's a simularity , right ? ’ |