Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 2 | Nigel 's wife often appeared to haunt him after that . |
| 3 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 4 | His attitude has changed from being one of someone superior punishing someone who had insulted him to that of him being a bully and chasing down a poor wretch . |
| 5 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 6 | He said that ‘ the powers that be ’ had presented him with a summons and the Protestant people had presented him with that book and he thought a parallel could be drawn between the two . |
| 7 | He loathed the sterile ritual of inspections , and this poor devil in his untimely end had saved him from that . |
| 8 | His grandad had told him about that , years later , when he was about fifteen . |
| 9 | Although the words were his the images were taken from those things Kraal and Minch had told him about that distant place . |
| 10 | With Mr Crump 's wealth … his dreams of money diverted his energy from the sexual lust which had gripped him after that effervescent meeting with the Crumps . |
| 11 | Those who had known him from that earlier period , however , were less than enthusiastic about his elevation . |
| 12 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 13 | He would have preferred , I knew , to keep them at home , but Ruth , his wife , had overruled him in that , as she did in quite a few other matters . |
| 14 | When he stood there was blood all over the white shirt his mother had dressed him in that morning . |
| 15 | Fate had branded him on that October night as a gangster and a street-fighter . |
| 16 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 17 | Oh , and he asked if I 'd ever seen Angy having any kind of disagreement with anyone and I had to tell him about that little contretemps with Mr Willard and young Godfrey Mellish . ’ |
| 18 | Now , more than anything , she wanted to point him towards that hole and push . |