Example sentences of "it [vb past] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 When the National Executive expelled Cripps for his part in the " United Peace Alliance " , it attacked him for his influence in the League .
2 It served a dual purpose ; it provided him with lots of material for the classroom and enabled him to discuss his ideas with colleagues from a wide variety of schools .
3 Danby 's fall in 1679 may have deprived Dering of a political ally and patron , but it provided him with his most prestigious government position .
4 She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure .
5 Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record .
6 It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms .
7 Commenting on the incident , Nguza said that it confirmed him in his decision to suspend the conference .
8 And I think it brought him to his senses a lot after that , he thought well hello I 've got what do you call it now ?
9 I wanted our collaboration , strange as it was , to continue for eve ; , just so long as it kept him beside me .
10 Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day .
11 It reminded him of himself .
12 But it reminded him of what he wanted to say .
13 He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was .
14 Graham frowned as he passed it , partly at its loud white-lettered tyres and obtrusive styling , but partly because it reminded him of something ; something to do with Slater , with Sara even .
15 It reminded him of something — a picture , a picture in a story book .
16 Masklin quite enjoyed it ; it reminded him of his days as an Outsider , before they found the Store .
17 It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina .
18 It reminded him of his boyhood reading .
19 The thought of it rocked him in his chair .
20 Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ?
21 When its buoyancy forced it up again , it carried him with it .
22 It supplied him with nothing less than the key to a fresh overall grasp of theology which was able to cope with the most serious challenges proffered in the previous century .
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