Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 2 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 3 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 4 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 5 | We have sought him in the promptings of our hearts or the resolutions of our committees . |
| 6 | In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions . |
| 7 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
| 8 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 9 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 10 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 11 | Millie 's evidently seen him with the slates coming off the roof and the storm cones flying . |
| 12 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 13 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 14 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 15 | This was good news , as I had met him after a children 's charity evening and had found him shy , attractive and funny . |
| 16 | But for the generosity Dysart had shown him over the years , he might even have approved of his actions . |
| 17 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 18 | ‘ God has already shown him by the lightnings what I do think he already knew in his heart . |
| 19 | According to another story from Lipchitz he complained bitterly that Beatrice had ‘ bitten him in the balls ’ . |
| 20 | Patrick had briefed him on the reasons for their sudden turnaround in Bucharest and the dash back to the Channel . |
| 21 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 22 | It did n't hurt that much , but he pretended she 'd got him in the balls , hoping for a little wifely penitence . |
| 23 | Chopra had told him about the changes transforming the planet , but the shapechanger just smiled knowingly . |
| 24 | She 'd told him about the looks aimed at her by Adam 's teachers . |
| 25 | Henderson was swamped by back-slapping colleagues who have helped him through the difficulties of adapting to life in Zimbabwe in the last two weeks . |
| 26 | The constable might not have minded the instant promotion but I doubt if the commissioner would have been too happy had I relegated him to the ranks ! ) |
| 27 | But though the jungle morass has gripped him to the knees |
| 28 | A junior nurse on Folliott , the male medical ward , sat at her table , full of talk about one of their patients who had suffered an acute asthmatic attack and gone into respiratory failure , and how Dr Kent had grabbed him from the jaws of death . |
| 29 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |
| 30 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |