Example sentences of "it [vb past] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix Labs did manage to walk away from Judge Debevoise 's courtroom with a minor victory : it got him to set the record straight as to how many copies of 32V were actually distributed . |
| 2 | I think it got him thinking positive . |
| 3 | It amused him to see how the gullible idiot deferred to him , even when they were in the midst of a vicious argument . |
| 4 | He liked on occasion to talk of his earlier days at his parents ' cottage in Scotland , and it amused him to remember that his sensitive mother could never bring herself to pronounce or write the word ‘ toilet paper ’ which was always , either in speech or on shopping lists , abbreviated simply to T.P. |
| 5 | It amused him to flirt with her and flatter her and see her blush . |
| 6 | Patiently occupied with his household tasks and with his sketching of Willem , it amused him to notice that ‘ already he seems to oppose himself to all social institutions and conventions . ’ |
| 7 | It amused him to think how much Maggie and Eileen Arbuthnot had in common , with their rooted prejudices . |
| 8 | It amused him to think that , although Marcus Judge was no longer taking an active part in the running of the Brotherhood , leaving most of the day-to-day organisation to his son , Josh was still afraid of the old man . |
| 9 | Yes , she thought — because he liked power and it amused him to practise dominating people on her . |
| 10 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 11 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 12 | Gedge 's infatuation with Rigby was so powerful that it led him to agree that Duane , a guitarist , could join the group . |
| 13 | It led him to spend endless hours in the House of Commons , far more than any Prime Minister for many years before , far more than any of his successors . |
| 14 | For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available . |
| 15 | It appalled him to think of living as Tina did , with one lover after another , apparently not even selectively , or as Jed , long separated from his wife and child , consoled by the society of a bird . |
| 16 | It 's absolutely horrible but Malcolm would insist on taking you there because it made him feel part of some secret society . |
| 17 | Just the thought of it made him feel unclean . |
| 18 | She was talking to him as if he was grown-up and it made him feel uncomfortable . |
| 19 | It made him feel a lot better . |
| 20 | It made him feel less vulnerable . |
| 21 | It made him feel superior and worldly wise . |
| 22 | Nigel assumed she was lying , but it made him feel better . |
| 23 | He would have liked her home more , because it made him feel in control . |
| 24 | They agreed that the letter about which Clarissa was so upset must be from the War Office , and Peregrine said it made him feel almost cowardly to have survived the German breakthrough , the evacuation of the beaches and now this latest blow on the very day the capitulation of France was announced . |
| 25 | It made him feel sick to his soul to watch the naked Irishman snorting with pleasure on his mam 's bed . |
| 26 | It made him feel better when he heard Smallfry mention the book , the special album in which they kept all the photographs of him wearing his best clothes and doing nice things . |
| 27 | ‘ He liked one dog , ’ said Ludens , ‘ it made him feel relaxed and tender . ’ |
| 28 | Hearing it made him feel human again . |
| 29 | It made him feel he wanted to punish the crowd and fired him to say , ‘ If this is what they think of me and what they think of Jacklin , I 'll make sure he never finishes in front of me again . ’ |
| 30 | It made him feel afraid but it excited him too . |