Example sentences of "[adv] [det] [noun] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Sally-Anne had known nothing of this — only that standing with him on the ferry that day was sheer enchantment .
2 For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction .
3 One man was lost in the Mexican desert for eight days , having had only enough water with him for one day .
4 On the right , his father was not many yards behind him in that charge .
5 Now that Luke had her , now that he knew she was incapable of resisting him , there was no longer any need for him to be seen with her .
6 Either there were not enough fish for him in the Black Sea , or he could n't catch them .
7 That at least was the rationale behind the nepotism , though in practice Nicolae Ceauşescu 's brothers were as little use to him in the final analysis as Napoleon 's brothers were to the beleaguered emperor .
8 This occurs about every three months , and I doubt that life would be half as much fun for him without this sort of ritual .
9 It is true , as Mr Chedlow has stressed , that he has not got as many years before him through which he has to live with this discomfort , pain and impairment of movement .
10 And last night it emerged that the man was being held in police cells because there was n't enough space for him at Durham prison .
11 This concludes Mr Birdwood 's article and again many thanks to him for the talk he gave last March and for permission to reprint same .
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