Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goreng had dominated him with his will . |
| 2 | She had been outraged when her husband left for another woman , had addressed him with religious vehemence and spoken of hell , but as time passed she had realised that life was very much more pleasant without him , that he was generous with money , and so she had , not forgiven , but ceased to revile him ; and I know she found grim amusement in my stepmother 's harassed countenance and the irritating ways of her two small children . |
| 3 | Strange how he had given that start when he had addressed him as Sir Joseph . |
| 4 | As yet he was n't used to the title ; indeed , he was perhaps the first to have addressed him as such . |
| 5 | She had never yet addressed him as Sir Joseph , because somehow he did n't look like a sir ; he did n't , in her eyes , fit the title ; he was too young . |
| 6 | Until then she had demurely addressed him as ‘ Sir ’ . |
| 7 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 8 | Now this man had approached and addressed him in English and in an upper-class accent too . |
| 9 | At least , the cricket authorities have deemed him to be so , even if A.E . |
| 10 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 11 | I says , I do n't know I 've just rung him about it . |
| 12 | He had spent the morning in bed with Rosie , which was why he 'd missed his date down at the docks , she had rung him at ten to eight . |
| 13 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 14 | Calls for Bakatin 's removal had been taken up on Dec. 1 by the Soyuz ( " Union " ) group of conservative deputies in the Congress , the very people who had nominated him in March to run against Gorbachev for the presidency . |
| 15 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 16 | Maybe she could have surfeited him with pleasure as surely as she could have overwhelmed him with agony . |
| 17 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 18 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 19 | He indicated to Haussmann that the form of the railway station , a huge open space covered by glass , had impressed him as a possible model and as a result of the Emperor 's predilections , and Baltard 's skill , the great new market of Les Halles was built in a light , airy combination of iron , stone and glass . |
| 20 | But the appearance of Howard when he came into the room must have impressed him in spite of himself — the bulging clear blue eyes , the eager lean of the body forward , the anxiety on the face to understand the world around him . |
| 21 | She went on to claim that Elvis wanted to join his beloved mother Gladys , whose death had shattered him beyond repair . |
| 22 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 23 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 24 | It was the tragic irony of Fate that , because of the terms of reference to which de Castelnau had committed him in advance , this uniquely humanitarian general would be called upon to subject the men under his command to what was shortly to become the most inhuman conflict of the whole war . |
| 25 | His insistence that our sun should be preeminent also predisposed him toward the belief that previously invisible stars , now revealed by Galileo 's telescope , had been too small rather than too distant to be seen . |
| 26 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 27 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 28 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 29 | I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for not having torn him to pieces already ! ’ |
| 30 | Like Han Ch'in that time , when she had almost bettered him at archery … |