Example sentences of "and [vb past] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
| 2 | … a round shot struck a seaman at one of the guns near them on the breast and laid him dead on the deck , before he had time to utter a groan . |
| 3 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 4 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
| 5 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 6 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 7 | I talked to Assemblyman Barry Keene , who , as Chairman of the California State Assembly Health Committee , wrote the bill and piloted it through the Legislature , and asked him first whether he felt that before the Act there was a grey area of uncertainty surrounding these problems . |
| 8 | There was in Tolkien 's later life , he notes , ‘ a perpetual discontinuity , a breaking of threads which delayed achievement and frustrated him more and more ’ . |
| 9 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 10 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 11 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 12 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 13 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 14 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 15 | The man was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; the many were that section of the French people who , newly enfranchised in 1848 , gave him their votes and made him first their president and then their emperor . |
| 16 | The hardness of Pharaoh 's heart : several times in these chapters God is said to have hardened Pharaoh 's heart and made him obstinate ( 4:21 ; 10:1 ; 20 , 27 ) . |
| 17 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |
| 18 | Pietersen , a kindly man , invited the apparition in and made him welcome . |
| 19 | The tone irritated Carey , and made him impatient . |
| 20 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 21 | He checked and stood amazed , half afraid to believe , and the colour of incredulous joy flushed through his fairness and made him bright as a rose . |
| 22 | Similar outspoken attacks on Tory rebels over charges for eye and dental checks once boosted a revolt — and made him more enemies . |
| 23 | And made him sick . |
| 24 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
| 25 | But this one man did give him Rule Britannia , and got him all taking the same time as him ! |
| 26 | His return fire lifted Weaver off his feet and flung him two yards backwards , to sprawl at Bodie 's feet as Bodie came racing through the side garden . |
| 27 | As he began to shout his reply , he only managed the words , ‘ Bloody tacky , ’ when , at the sound of his raised voice close to her ear , Daisy swung her head towards him and caught him full in the chest with her nose . |
| 28 | She merely went off to the nursery for a brief inspection , came back and pronounced him gorgeous . |
| 29 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 30 | He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep . |