Example sentences of "[verb] him [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 2 | The class had taken a whole afternoon to find him buried beneath his precious collection and he had been more concerned about his stones than himself . |
| 3 | She remembered the distinct thud of disappointment verging on alarm she had experienced when she had stepped out of the lift to find him surrounded by luggage , obviously leaving . |
| 4 | No : three Counsellors were concentrating on him , keeping him pinned behind his shield of stones . |
| 5 | The Encomiast has him beheaded by Earl Eric personally , while Florence says that he was killed in London at Christmas 1017 and that Cnut ordered the corpse to be left unburied . |
| 6 | John 's wife Clare has to stand outside the stable on a crate with Milton 's tail over the top of the stable door and pull it from there , while John has him twitched at the front end . |
| 7 | Set in the Depression era , in a dusty southern mill town , Ms Amelia ( Vanessa Redgrave ) is an eccentric store owner , whose unconsummated marriage to local bad boy Marvin Macy ( Keith Carradine ) , has him set on revenge against her . |
| 8 | This emphasis seems intended to correct earlier approaches to Lam that found him influenced by Matisse , Picasso , Breton , and Miró , an exotic Third World modernist satellite rather than a major creative force . |
| 9 | They found him slumped against the steering wheel |
| 10 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 11 | In the morning Tom found him huddled under the bed . |
| 12 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 13 | She opened the door , and found him huddled in an overcoat , hands deep in pockets , a red scarf thrown carelessly around his neck . |
| 14 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 15 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 16 | Breakfasting at Bradfield Hall on one occasion , the agriculturalist Duke of Bedford found him surrounded by pupils from Russia , France , America , Naples , Sicily and Portugal . |
| 17 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 18 | He could picture him hunched over his desk , busily writing … forever writing . |
| 19 | But in the evening , on what was to prove his last visit , the prisoner was so long and so quiet that eventually the carabiniere who had remained to guard him banged on the door . |
| 20 | His first student essays in photography show him fascinated by natural order and symmetry , the geometry of nature , the abstract face of concrete things . |
| 21 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 22 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 23 | She had never seen him engaged in such mundane activity , and yet he did not seem to –ind her presence an embarrassment . |
| 24 | In charge on a caretaker basis since the October sacking of John Beck , Johnson had hoped his side 's Coca-Cola Cup defeat of Premier League Oldham on Tuesday would have seen him appointed on a permanent basis . |
| 25 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 26 | As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon . |
| 27 | She had seen him surrounded by people shouting and screaming , ‘ Go on , my son ’ , not one of them down to lose or win as much as Jack , and he 'd just stand there like a beautiful , pale statue . |
| 28 | In contrast only one surviving statue of Hadrian shows him dressed in a toga . |
| 29 | The Second Great Seal of Richard I , which shows him seated between the Moon and the Sun and bearing the symbols of his sovereignty . |
| 30 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |