Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 2 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 3 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 4 | She 'd met him a few times , usually when he was drunk . |
| 5 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I 've met him a few times , ’ she admitted . |
| 7 | I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’ |
| 8 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 9 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 10 | Mauve had given him a few casts of hands and feet to take home and study . |
| 11 | Lady Maude had given him a few pennies and tomorrow he planned to see his friend in Crabbe Street . |
| 12 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 13 | In fact it was one of Adams 's less-explosive innings which has given him the most pleasure this summer . |
| 14 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 15 | She had asked him a few Saturdays ago if everything was all right between them . |
| 16 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 17 | Then he noticed that a boy , who had passed him a few minutes before , had returned , and was now looking at him carefully from the opposite side of the road . |
| 18 | ‘ And Seb 's ridden him a few times . |