Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] [pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he had cast the Marshal a grateful look when he saw him standing there as promised , watching with his big , slightly bulging eyes . |
| 2 | ‘ I mean , let's face it , he was a good leader , but a right miserable old prune when it took him . ’ |
| 3 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 4 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 5 | I do n't think the Labour 'd know a free vote if it bit him on the leg . |
| 6 | ‘ D ’ , my husband , did n't accept me loving another girl when I told him I was a lesbian , but after a while he accepted me as Carla — 100 per cent . |
| 7 | Bloody buggering shame if you asked him . |
| 8 | There was a pause , as if he was controlling his rage , before he answered , ‘ He died a few days after you left him . ’ |
| 9 | CHAMPION golfer Fred Couples has walked out on his wife of 12 years because she embarrassed him by dancing on a table , friends claimed last night . |
| 10 | T. B. I could n't go across the road to speak to another policeman if I saw him , never spoke to anyone . |
| 11 | It was indeed Darwin 's wife , Emma , herself a scientist , who pointed out the real danger in the use of scientific method when she asked him : " May not the habit in scientific pursuits of believing nothing till it is proved , influence your mind too much in other things which can not be proved in the same way ? and which if true are likely to be above our comprehension ? " |
| 12 | In a violent struggle , the policeman found it necessary to unscrew the man 's wooden leg as he wrestled him to the ground , striking him across the head with his truncheon . |
| 13 | Jackie Tiptoe could turn himself into a proper gent when it suited him . |
| 14 | She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass . |
| 15 | Timmy the catcher mouse was a very long name for a very little cat so everyone called him Tim . |
| 16 | She went inside for her briefcase and Steve gave her a thoughtful look as she passed him and then polished off the remains of his champagne in one gulp . |
| 17 | Her finely shaped brows met in dark disapproval as she watched him pick at the lock with a thin piece of wire that he had produced from somewhere in the depths of his pocket . |
| 18 | The light seemed to fade from the brightly shimmering early evening as she heard him , and her heart felt as if an iron band was tightening mercilessly about it . |
| 19 | In the early weeks after I had him I suffered from postnatal depression . |
| 20 | He nearly had a nervous breakdown so they made him go to Plumford . |
| 21 | He was just about to start on his nineteenth nervous breakdown when I left him . ’ |
| 22 | He relapsed into a dangerous silence when they accused him of ‘ breaking family ties ’ by his refusal to stop writing letters to the Strickers ' home . |
| 23 | He looked suspicious at first , and so did the Japanese waiters as they helped him pull his tuba case through the very narrow doorway . |
| 24 | Later , as he rode home in the cool night air , a vision of old Bert 's delighted face as he presented him with the larger fish invaded his mind 's eye , and filled him with contentment . |
| 25 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 26 | she looked absolute daggers when she took him out did n't she ? |
| 27 | But a victory by Elliott in the final event of General Portfolio 's grandly mis-named Mile of Miles series was all that mattered to selectors three days after they chose him ahead of Cram for the Commonwealth Games . |
| 28 | The car drove off with a scream of tyres , and Fran shivered in sudden reaction as she watched him go . |
| 29 | Fifty-two years before I met him , Lawrence Beesley had been a second-class passenger on the maiden voyage of the Titanic . |
| 30 | ‘ With hindsight , I do n't believe the United board were prepared to back Ossie Ardiles with hard cash before they sacked him . |