Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , my husband called him that . |
| 2 | I like him in that jumper and my friend gave him that . |
| 3 | And he , my father reminded him last night and he said yeah he would have them by tomorrow morning . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure . |
| 5 | She massaged the brow , standing back , closing her eyes to recall him better . |
| 6 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 7 | The old women of the town marvelled at a child whose intellect had been ‘ forced into almost an unnatural ripeness ’ , and their flattery made him vain : |
| 8 | It would have been less harrowing to have got the meeting over quickly ; on the other hand the delay while he awaited her return gave him more time to think and plan . |
| 9 | She dug deeper into the flesh of his lower back and buttocks , raising her hips to press him deeper into her still , her sex tightening around his cock as though to prevent him from leaving her unspent . |
| 10 | In practice they are those cases in which the plaintiff seeks to enforce or protect some right vested in him ( eg , an injunction to restrain a breach of contract ) rather than those where he merely invites the court to exercise its powers to grant him some statutory relief ( eg an application by a debtor for a " time order " under Consumer Credit Act 1974 , s 129(1) ( b ) ) . |
| 11 | The stench of the frowsty rooms as much as the picture of the misery of its inhabitants left him pale . |
| 12 | And with that she turned on him herself and raising up her wings struck him such a blow with her talons that he rolled back out of control in the air , the tops of the pine trees below spinning before his eyes . |
| 13 | But memory of her weakness , of her unwillingness to shoot him one last , final time , made her feel sick to her stomach . |
| 14 | Her spittle caught him full in the face , caught him offguard . |
| 15 | She said her mother gave him that photograph . ’ |
| 16 | Her outburst left him unperturbed . |
| 17 | Because the poison inside his sister hurt him more than her accusations ? |
| 18 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 19 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 20 | His friends called him an easy-going chap ; his enemies called him weak . |
| 21 | His enemies refused him Christian burial at first , but he was later interred in his grandfather 's kirk at Birsay . |
| 22 | His contract allowed him fifteen francs a day , if Zborowski could manage it , to cover all his needs . |
| 23 | Just how successful Reagan was as governor of California has , not surprisingly , been the subject of dispute , with his supporters exaggerating his achievements and his opponents giving him less than his due . |
| 24 | George is also quite generous with his possessions , giving Lennie a larger portion of their food , or giving him all of his ketchup to keep him happy . |
| 25 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 26 | His mum made him some instead , and I 'll pour it on you after you said that one . |
| 27 | Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open , at least for a time ? |
| 28 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 29 | His agent phoned him last week . |
| 30 | The sinister side included Norman Whiteside , still short of full fitness and substituted after his irritability got him booked , and the right-footed Neil McDonald , an obviously uncomfortable deputy at left-back for Neil ‘ Disser ’ Pointon . |