Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But memory of her weakness , of her unwillingness to shoot him one last , final time , made her feel sick to her stomach . |
| 9 | Her spittle caught him full in the face , caught him offguard . |
| 10 | She said her mother gave him that photograph . ’ |
| 11 | Her outburst left him unperturbed . |
| 12 | Because the poison inside his sister hurt him more than her accusations ? |
| 13 | His contract allowed him fifteen francs a day , if Zborowski could manage it , to cover all his needs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 16 | His mum made him some instead , and I 'll pour it on you after you said that one . |
| 17 | Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open , at least for a time ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His agent phoned him last week . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 22 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 23 | But when his isolation rendered him vulnerable , he turned to Louis for assistance . |
| 24 | But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage . |
| 25 | The works of his so-called ‘ pink ’ and ‘ blue ’ periods were being bought by important collectors , and the fact that an established dealer like Vollard was interested in his work gave him additional prestige . |
| 26 | Returning to the audience , an exuberant Florian had abandoned assumed modesty and was pausing to accept congratulations from all sides , but when Maria would have risen to add hers as his passage brought him close to their table , a light touch on her bare arm stayed her . |
| 27 | Dr. Jekyll becomes obsessed with producing a drug that can separate ‘ the good and evil personalities of man ’ , but the results of his discovery send him mad . |
| 28 | Tolkien 's contention was that something he called ‘ the ulsterior motive ’ — the bogey of Lewis 's Ulster background — lurked beneath the surface of his imagination , and rose when he was off his guard to make him brutal in manners , crude or illogical in thought . |
| 29 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 30 | Throughout his long marriage his homosexuality caused him great unhappiness , and if there was any one key to Laughton 's greatness as an actor then it was surely his sense of being a misfit , uneasy in his own skin and forever on the outside of the social , sexual , and familial demands of his upbringing and conditioning . |