Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a girl , which greatly predisposed him towards her . |
| 2 | She dropped to her knees , and unbuttoned him with quick busy fingers . |
| 3 | Others said that their driving was risky because friends and , to a lesser extent , the public , police and insurance companies labelled him as ‘ high risk ’ and charged him a high premium , he might as well get his money 's worth . |
| 4 | His own militancy , he confessed , labelled him to his opponents as " a dangerous person who must be put out of business " . |
| 5 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 6 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 7 | Only nine days ago he lost the Macartney and Dowie Classic when Douglas defeated him in the semi-final , and the loss of another title today could be extremely damaging to morale . |
| 8 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 9 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 10 | But although the structure of the city still defeated him in detail , he had got his bearings well enough to know that this could not be their destination . |
| 11 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 12 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 13 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 14 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 15 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 16 | W. B. Yeats [ q.v. ] dismissed him as ‘ all blood , dirt , and sucked sugar-stick ’ , yet it is likely that , had he survived the war , Owen would have grown in stature to span the native tradition between Thomas Hardy and Philip Larkin [ qq.v . ] . |
| 17 | Churchill , when frustrated by Eisenhower , grumbled that the president was " weak and stupid " , and he later contemptuously dismissed him as Dulles 's " ventriloquist 's doll " . |
| 18 | Ranulf came in with a series of plaintive questions but Corbett dismissed him with a look . |
| 19 | The man held up a hand to silence Barak then turned to the guard beside him and dismissed him with a curt nod of the head . |
| 20 | Jotan took a cup out of the page 's hands , then dismissed him with a flick of his head . |
| 21 | Cromwell , remarkably , dismissed him with merely a caution , though the appointment at St Botolph 's Bishopsgate was formally revoked a few months later . |
| 22 | Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand . |
| 23 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 24 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 25 | We dismissed him on their information . |
| 26 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 27 | The Board dismissed him for allegedly failing in his duties to teach junior doctors . |
| 28 | The board dismissed him for ‘ gross misconduct and gross professional negligence ’ and is still considering legal steps to recover the cash . |
| 29 | ‘ Go on — it will cheer you up ’ but I dismissed him like the rest , saying I was not thirsty , despising the thought of drinking from the same grimy bottle which a rogue had . |
| 30 | O'Neill denies using abusive language to referee Eddy Green , who dismissed him from the dugout during a win over Northwich on March 24 . |