Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked what he felt about the nominal fine , he replied , " Not a lot , " before heading to the practice ground to repair a swing which has won him just £8,750 this season . |
| 2 | Frank , 49 , who had requested the inquiry himself [ see p. 36843 ] , was a generally liked and respected member of the House , whose openness had originally won him much sympathy , although a detailed interview in Newsweek caused some offence . |
| 3 | I 've seen him once Marion . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't suppose his crystal ball 's told him where Newley 's got to ? ’ |
| 5 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 6 | Your unwarranted intrusion may have set him back months . ’ |
| 7 | His short visit has given him much information about the courses but , more importantly , he now has an intimate feeling of how these young men and women , drawn from all walks of life , are trained . |
| 8 | ‘ You had run him over races short of his best distance . |
| 9 | The travelling chaos of a modern party leader 's election entourage had carried Major within a few miles of the home of the founder of the profession , a few of whose more troublesome contemporary practitioners are said to have caused him much irritation over the 16 months of his premiership . |
| 10 | He was thirty-six years old and not yet married , mainly because his trips to Africa — where most of his work had been done — had not left him much time to find a suitable wife , though others in similar positions seemed to have achieved wives and marriages , whether suitable or not . |
| 11 | It had taken him only half-an-hour to reach the heralded target figure , and it was poetic justice that Graham Gooch was his partner at the time . |