Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mayer was never fond of Goldwyn and one day became so enraged with him in the showers of the Hillcrest Country Club that he knocked Goldwyn into the towel cabinet . |
| 2 | It could n't be Dr Kent ; she hardly knew him , she 'd only spoken to him three times , and then briefly . |
| 3 | But these days Hazel seemed sufficiently impressed by him anyway , whatever he did . |
| 4 | He always stayed calm , but he had a knack of turning things around so that you thought you were getting your own way when in fact you 'd just agreed with him . |
| 5 | His head , when I 'd finally looked at him , was turned away from me towards his companions , as was Daffodil 's also . |
| 6 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 7 | He 's quite good-looking in a film-starry way — I 'd always thought of him as young . |
| 8 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 9 | He smiled at her , but the concern she 'd once felt for him had wholly dissipated . |
| 10 | If they 'd really cared for him , Nigel reasoned , they 'd have stayed . |
| 11 | Their abstract certitudes seemed far removed to him from the inherent contradictions in human nature . |
| 12 | He 'd almost forgotten about him . |
| 13 | ‘ I told you I 'd never heard of him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 15 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 16 | Merrill turned uninterestedly away and lifted the coffee-pot as the dining-room door swung violently shut behind him . |
| 17 | Knowing the likely unpopularity of his mission , he concealed its purpose from the island 's inhabitants , and withdrew from their banquet early , with the excuse that he had been tired by the journey ; later , when they had gone exhausted to their beds , he entered Mildred 's church accompanied by selected monks and the soldiers he had prudently brought with him . |
| 18 | He pulled the table closer to the fire and draped his cloak over it to dry , but his movements lacked the usual lithe , co-ordinated strength Isabel had hitherto seen in him , and she noticed that he was n't using his left arm at all . |
| 19 | They had all learned from him ; she and Lisa still spoke , stylistically , as he had taught them to . |
| 20 | Her fingertips had only fluttered around him in butterfly ecstasy . |
| 21 | Dear lord , when she had so longed for him ! |
| 22 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 23 | But Mark had now become absorbed in an idea for a sermon that had suddenly come to him . |
| 24 | And so , to the dhobis astonishment and terror , the Collector had suddenly materialized beside him at the water-trough . |
| 25 | It had suddenly occurred to him that he might have underestimated Gazzer : he remembered that unexpected defiance , last night , on the Wheel . |
| 26 | They had already turned against him when it was revealed he paid a secretary to keep quiet about an affair . |
| 27 | A crowd had already formed around him ! |
| 28 | She had already danced with him three times . |
| 29 | Stair was Alastair , Neil 's older and only brother , and was usually called ‘ poor Stair ’ because he had drunk , gambled and wenched away the small remains of the Cochrane estate , most of which his father had already dissipated before him . |
| 30 | Several titles had already occurred to him : ‘ American Hero Gone Wrong ’ , ‘ The Flawed Hero ’ , perhaps ‘ Carrying Patriotism Too Far ’ . |