Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him this was as much a part of everyday routine as surgery and many children had been greatly helped by him when afraid or emotionally disturbed . |
| 2 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 3 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 4 | Now , with Liza gone , she felt she would be able to mourn Tom 's passing in her own quiet way for , despite his many failures as a husband , she had been deeply attached to him . |
| 5 | On 20 December Pope Clement V was persuaded to issue a Bull , declaring that the concessions Edward had made had been unjustly extorted from him by force , were incompatible with his coronation oath to defend the honour and rights of the Crown , and were therefore null and void . |
| 6 | While ordering the drawings in the Turner Bequest , Ruskin wrote to Elizabeth Browning in 1858 that he believed ‘ the old man 's soul had been gradually crushed within him , leaving him at the close of his life weak , sinful , desolate — nothing but his generosity and kindness of heart left ’ . |
| 7 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 8 | All this had been carefully explained to him by Bewdsley , who had been sent to find him . |
| 9 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |
| 10 | Benjamin stared as if the victim had been well known to him . |
| 11 | The rumours must have reached Richard 's ears — indeed they may have been primarily intended for him . |
| 12 | Indeed , the courts will take a pragmatic view of the complexity of the information and the employee 's ability to remember it as a test of whether it has been wrongfully used/disclosed by him . |
| 13 | The Polytechnic was in the process of amalgamating with the College , and in a discussion in the Director 's office the College Principal was obviously shocked to hear things said by the Director that had not been previously shared with him . |
| 14 | To say that she has been publicly compared with him and proved superior in fraction simplification is insufficiently explanatory . |
| 15 | The revocation of that permission deprives the owner of a value which has been specifically given to him ; hence compensation is payable . |
| 16 | Filmer 's neck muscles slowly relaxed , and I realized that for a moment he must have suspected that the scene had been specifically aimed at him . |