Example sentences of "it [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it got him in the end . |
| 2 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 3 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 4 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 5 | Served up as B fodder , at least it provided him with a salary , albeit on rock-bottom union rates of around $300 for a full working week , which assured him a place barely above the poverty line . |
| 6 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 7 | Frankie could not be one of them , yet he feared in his hear that it might be true , because when she called him ‘ Nigger ’ it wounded him in a special way he did not really understand . |
| 8 | It lifted him for a moment before it threw him down , so that for a second he saw what he wanted : that the sea had already overrun the beach and the rocks and the shingle and was advancing like a black wall rimmed with white over the slipways and grasslands of Orphir . |
| 9 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
| 10 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
| 11 | A fortress over the centuries , now it beckoned him with a fine house , The Vines , where once the German commandant had surveyed the desolated scene . |
| 12 | It swallowed him like a mouth . |
| 13 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 15 | Eating quail 's eggs , he frowned as he reread the letter from Lloyd 's : it warned him of the amount that he would shortly be expected to produce in settlement . |
| 16 | His pot was in his hand still , it preceded him like the torch of justice . |
| 17 | It guided him to the stairs , which were straight ahead . |
| 18 | Luckily , it hit him on the head . |
| 19 | And then he turned over and saw the empty crumpled pillow beside him , and it hit him in a great wave . |
| 20 | It hit him in the chest . |
| 21 | There was a difference of opinion what happened next — she thought it went in from there , I was convinced it hit him in the head and went in . |
| 22 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 23 | They did n't have visitors because it sent him into a fury . |
| 24 | He watched her eyes fire with the old , familiar irony , and it hurt him like a blade . |
| 25 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 26 | He turned instinctively against the wind , or nearly , for that way was easiest to control and fortunately it took him towards the greatest darkness . |
| 27 | Even then , Lloyd went down fighting with 72 in his last innings ; it took him to a total of 7,515 runs at 46 , with nineteen centuries . |
| 28 | While it freed him from a form of dependency — his succession to the LDP leadership had been achieved with the faction 's support — it also meant that the future of his premiership would depend on the skill with which he was able to balance the party 's competing factions — including his own — all of which were of roughly equal strength . |
| 29 | Most important of all , it put him beyond the law . |
| 30 | It put him in a predicament . |