Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 2 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 3 | After the first turn it 's down to luck , the Fanatic could go anywhere , but the chances are you 'll either block the enemy or hit him hard for at least one more turn . |
| 4 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 5 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 6 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 7 | He felt subtly in touch with higher forces , as though he had become the Tarot card that represented him . |
| 8 | To illustrate this , let us imagine Heinrich Hertz , in 1888 , performing the electrical experiment that enabled him to produce and detect radio waves for the first time . |
| 9 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 10 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 11 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 12 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 13 | But that apprehension was not physical cowardice , rather the fear of defeat and subsequent demotion from big-money fighter to poorly-paid has-been that drove him on . |
| 14 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
| 15 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 16 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 17 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 18 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 19 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 20 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 21 | Jack grunted , conscious only of the icy fear that gripped him . |
| 22 | All things considered , de Gaulle was probably not as certain of communist intentions as he suggested in his memoirs , and it was probably the very uncertainty that worried him . |
| 23 | Davis 's struggle to overcome the racial prejudice that held him back was backed by Sinatra . |
| 24 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 25 | It was Mr Nearn 's interest in the car that led him , in 1959 , to set up Caterham Car Sales and Coachworks with three friends . |
| 26 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 27 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 28 | The result was a whiplash neck that required him to wear a brace between performances and did not heal completely for three years . |
| 29 | ‘ And then they painted the walls of his office with a chemical that made him lose his mind , ’ she was saying to her brother Phil , who was sitting next to her . |
| 30 | The blood had been washed from his face and body , and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family , who , despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church . |