Example sentences of "him [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Orton took it upon herself , watching him pick at a little heap of sprouts and chestnut , to observe that he had very likely made himself ill with being faddy . |
| 2 | Deeply as she disliked and distrusted the actress , she still was n't certain just how Dane felt about her , and she was n't about to pin her own colours to the mast and risk having him leap to the other woman 's defence . |
| 3 | Corbett sang the psalms with them , feeling a great deal of the tension within him dissipate with the monotonous , harmonious chant . |
| 4 | Mills had apparently met a very loquacious Dennis Suit in a bar in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , and listened to him brag about the worldwide connections he had made in the course of his career as a self-proclaimed CIA agent . |
| 5 | Watching him disappear into the inner sanctum , Lucy sighed . |
| 6 | Leonora sipped her tea in silence , watching him dispose of a large slice of cheese and several wholewheat biscuits . |
| 7 | Ultimately , he says , he opposed it since it would mean terminating the 386BSD project , an action CSRG has taken , as well as having him renege on a published promise to produce freely accessible 386 code . |
| 8 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 9 | Paige watched him go with a sinking heart . |
| 10 | She watched him undress in the easy manner of a long-standing husband before his wife . |
| 11 | In 1895 Morrison was in London , thinking again about a career in journalism , when C. F. Moberly Bell [ q.v. ] , manager of The Times , offered him work as a secret correspondent to Siam ( Thailand ) . |