Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown felt that Nicaea was now descending into the chaos he felt inside himself , that had torn him apart since his wife 's death . |
| 2 | We 'd booked him just as his catchphrases were being quoted by the entire nation , and all because Julie 's mortgage broker knew someone who knew his phone number and he had agreed to appear . |
| 3 | ‘ We would have caught him eventually but this time it was thankfully a case of sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd caught him once or twice patting her bottom which the silly girl probably took as evidence of her superior attractions , whereas I knew he did it to every woman under forty . |
| 5 | Many will have forgotten him too because it is surprising how quickly those in the public eye fade . |
| 6 | Of course , maybe I 've missed him entirely and he 's already set off on whatever trip Mr Archer seemed to know about . |
| 7 | She 'd visited him regularly when he was in prison ; but he could see as the months went by that whatever that special something they 'd had , it was withering away . |
| 8 | ‘ Young George Curdle 's got it , of course , and I 've visited him now and again . |
| 9 | We have visited him twice and each time Wolfgang has worked out a fugue … |
| 10 | Spitz noticed ( what many mothers also notice ) that , quite suddenly around eight months of age , babies who had suffered him more or less happily till then , became wary , often bursting into tears . |
| 11 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 12 | His conversion to Islam , his rejection of that faith and the subsequent , troubled period , when the disease had made him all but unrecognizable to any but a few close friends , are things we may wish to pass over today , but — ’ |
| 13 | In the weeks that had passed since she had met Rupert Stonebird at the vicarage her interest in him had deepened , mainly because she had not seen him again and had therefore been able to build up a more satisfactory picture of him than if she had been able to check with reality . |
| 14 | He did not know the man 's name but was certain he had seen him before and believed he knew where he worked . |
| 15 | I had seen him now and again during those ten years , before his sacking . |
| 16 | I had seen him once before when he had waved to me from an upper window and I had waved back . |
| 17 | I 've seen him once and will try to photograph him . ’ |
| 18 | She had read about him in the newspapers , seen him once or twice on television , seen photographs of him in magazines . |
| 19 | ‘ You have n't even met him yet and already you 've put him behind bars for life . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Nicola had met him once or twice at various parties . |
| 21 | I 've met him once or twice recently . ’ |
| 22 | Mum had only met him once and that was it . |
| 23 | This seems to have sobered him somewhat and he became an assistant in A. W. H. Kolbe 's laboratory in Marburg , but his contract was not renewed . |
| 24 | However , the Minister knows that all the galleries — certainly the Tate and the national gallery — have told him strongly that the Government have the term of the trusteeships wrong . |
| 25 | She had not told him exactly where she had got all the money that had been spent so freely around this house , but of course he guessed . |
| 26 | Well he 's like the pig in the middle again , er they 've told him well unless you drive the waggon backwards and forwards through the gates , well you 're no good to us sort of down the road . |
| 27 | His ear confirmed what the electronic bug had told him shortly before he had entered the suite , namely that there was no sound of movement from within the bedroom , or its adjacent bathroom . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're both civilians , ’ he had told him crisply when he first took him on . |
| 29 | ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian . |
| 30 | She knew , for she had told him so that first night , that her situation , alone , unchaperoned , unprotected — and that was the worst of it ! — laid her open to advances . |