Example sentences of "him [conj] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , though she longed to flee from him , to put huge distances between them , there was something drawing her , some mystery in him that seemed to reach out and take her in its clutches . |
| 2 | What was it about him that seemed to knock her off balance this way , making her act so strangely out of character ? |
| 3 | The heat and strength of him that had alarmed her that first night now enthralled her . |
| 4 | It had been worship of him that had aroused Michael 's interest in boxing . |
| 5 | Of course it was him that had messed up his diary , drawing those stupid pictures in it . |
| 6 | It had been him that had wanted to nick Mrs Wright 's helmet . |
| 7 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 8 | Broad-shouldered and lean-hipped , he still had that fluent , athletic look about him that had marked him out so long ago . |
| 9 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 10 | He was lucky it was n't him that got stuffed . ’ |
| 11 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 12 | There was a sizeable part of him that wanted to exit this Dominion once and for all . |
| 13 | She neither yielded to him nor attempted to pull away . |
| 14 | At last he saw him and ran to meet him and joyfully welcomed him . |
| 15 | Siraj-ud-Daula could not have been defeated — if that is the word for the collapse of his army — and destroyed if he had not alienated his subjects by being unreliable and vacillating , without any signs of charm or kindness to make up for it , but the decisive fact was that the British had fought him , while his subjects had only deserted him and waited to see who would win . |
| 16 | My mother took pity on him and agreed to keep him for as long as she could . |
| 17 | They met him and agreed to pay him an extra £10,300 at £575 per flat to ensure that he continued with the work and completed on time . |
| 18 | Dorothy stood by him and came to visit him every day . |
| 19 | I liked him as soon as I met him and came to do so even more over the ensuing months . |
| 20 | When Bill Clough proposed , she accepted him and came to live at Petworth Estate . |
| 21 | He who made the cunts talk went straightaway into the castle ; all ran to salute him and wished to welcome him warmly , in which he could take great pleasure . ) |
| 22 | He stretched his long legs out in front of him and seemed to examine his shiny black shoes for a moment . |
| 23 | Making no attempt to answer , she turned to him and seemed to look into his eyes and beyond . |
| 24 | He glimpsed Dame Agatha smiling mischievously at him and felt comforted by her friendship . |
| 25 | Instead I closed him out , continued without him and became absorbed in my old routine . |
| 26 | He then reappeared in the dining car with an interested crowd of people following him and asked to speak to Xanthe , who up until then had kept palely quiet . |
| 27 | Morton went off with him and returned pushing a wide porter 's barrow , with empty sacks in it . |
| 28 | A young blonde woman who had tripped against a Sellsword was shoved by him and sent flying across the roadway . |
| 29 | Ashenden himself now sat back in his armchair , crossed his lanky legs , and watched with slightly narrowed eyes as Morse took the sheet from him and proceeded to read the reconstructed conversation : |
| 30 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |