Example sentences of "him [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1919 , a stroke left him paralysed down the left side , confused , unable to read or dictate , and staring vacantly into space . |
| 2 | She had had him pegged as an emotional lightweight , probably good at his job in a technical sense but untroubled by messy feelings . |
| 3 | We see him depicted as a young boy in Luke 2 , obedient to his parents , going up to the Temple and spending time with the learned men asking questions . |
| 4 | Something to keep him occupied through the odd thirty seconds of the week when he 's not actually reading some other report . |
| 5 | We did what we could but , ideally , I 'd like to see him moved to a proper unit , specialising in orthopaedics . |
| 6 | They left him slumped in a drunken stupor against the church wall . |
| 7 | The piper was coming towards him wrapped in a black cloak , playing … what had he been playing ? |
| 8 | He jogged every morning with lead weights slung on his chest , back and thighs to get him used to the extra poundage of the armour . |
| 9 | He was thus a particular target for the Tories , and according to his own account lost his seat at the 1702 election after a specific campaign against him inspired by the Tory leaders . |
| 10 | She looked over , and saw him sprawled over the inbuilt mini-heater vent . |
| 11 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 12 | That is his strength — but also his weakness , since music tends to take second place and leave him locked in a radical cabaret slot from which he is unlikely to emerge . |
| 13 | In fact , the point of having him played by a 6-foot 10inch ( 2.1-m ) Nigerian student , Bolaji Badejo , plus a rather less tall stuntman , was largely lost . |
| 14 | ‘ We had planned to run a single GM-backed Astra this year for Luis Climent but when Bardolet became available it was decided to provide a second car for him supported by an outside sponsor , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 15 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 16 | ‘ There is no rift between Liam Brady and myself , ’ said Grant , the youngest member of Celtic 's seven-man board , who last season survived an attempt by fellow directors to have him removed at a special general meeting . |
| 17 | Some time later a creditor did succeed in having him removed to a sponging house , where friends subscribed £500 to make life more bearable for him . |
| 18 | The efforts of Rusty Conway , Chief Public Relations Officer at U.V.I. , to minimize the publicity caused by this event get him entangled in the competing empires of television and the press . |
| 19 | But her fears were groundless : the generation gap in this instance had him beached on a far shore . |
| 20 | There was a big picture of him dressed in a fancy cowboy suit and Stetson hat , riding the pony Buddie had bought from a circus because it would n't allow the big men to ride on its back . |
| 21 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 22 | Even though I could now visualize a cell or a room , and a man chained to a wall , trying to occupy his mind and keep his fears at bay , when I thought of John it was like thinking of him lost in an abstract painting which I did n't understand . |
| 23 | The scent of incense seemed to have intensified , but it smelled to him overlaid with a sickly , more sinister smell , and the silence was n't absolute . |
| 24 | A TOP salesman sacked for shirking after his boss had him tailed by a private eye won £11,000 compensation yesterday . |
| 25 | Presumably some of those who were still loyal to Richard kept him informed of the deteriorating political situation , and of the contacts between his brothers and the rebels . |