Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody could have blamed him for trying it on , could they ? |
| 2 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 3 | He cited a Daily Mail article , rather curiously signed Editor , which had attacked him for presiding over the disappearance of ‘ an immense fortune ’ left hint by his father , and had concluded : ‘ It is difficult to see how the leader of a party who has lost his own fortune can hope to restore those of anyone else , or his country . |
| 4 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 5 | Poor Stephen — she should n't have teased him by exaggerating her friendship with Martin the way she had . |
| 6 | Only her own determination had prevented him from vomiting it back . |
| 7 | He was unprepared for the pain the room gave him , the fierce memory of the last time he had been here , when only that impulse of chivalry , or folly , had prevented him from taking her , as he could have done , from making her his own instead of handing her over to whoever had got her now . |
| 8 | The onus of proving that sufficient disclosure was made rests on the firm and it is not a defence to show that a legal or financial impediment on the part of the customer would have prevented him from proceeding with the relevant transaction , or that disclosure would not have affected the customer 's decision whether or not to proceed . |
| 9 | The indications are , therefore , that Offa was engaged fairly intensively against the Welsh across the first twenty-five or so years of his reign and this may have prevented him from pursuing Mercian interests in eastern and south-eastern England too vigorously before the mid-780s . |
| 10 | If after the plaintiff has been harmed his damages are increased by his failure to have proper medical attention , this failure by him to mitigate his damage would have prevented him from recovering that portion of his loss which is attributable to his omission , and it is doubtful whether section 13(6) of the 1965 Act has a different effect . |
| 11 | This appointment , the lowest rung on the Church 's ladder , would not , however , have prevented him from undertaking a period of study at Bologna . |
| 12 | The installer had come highly recommended , but that had n't prevented him from installing our boiler without one ! |
| 13 | I have been a personal friend for many years , but that has never prevented him from criticising my colleagues and myself whenever he felt it necessary to do so . |
| 14 | Was it some insensitivity in his nature that had failed to respond to the nuances of the relationship , some obtuseness of perception that had prevented him from seeing , as it still prevented him from understanding ? |
| 15 | Books had prevented him from going mad in prison . |
| 16 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 17 | He also acquired an oak cupboard with linenfold panels of the same period made in Picardy for FFr380,000 ( £39,500 ; $68,730 ) , more than three times its low estimate and said after the sale only those unexpectedly high prices had prevented him from going for more . |
| 18 | If he is anything like I was when I played my first Masters ( of three ) in 1978 , this limited time will not have prevented him from dreaming of all possible scenarios , from an air shot on the first tee to outright victory by some 10 shots . |
| 19 | At least , he felt , an act of Providence had prevented him from having a death on his conscience . |
| 20 | He 's very annoyed because his lack of education has prevented him from becoming a candidate for Swansea West in the general election . |
| 21 | While his Christian faith had prevented him from becoming Foreign Minister in Moslem-dominated Egypt , many Western diplomats regarded his marriage to an Egyptian Jew as a potential asset in promoting Arab-Israeli understanding . |
| 22 | This viewpoint seems to have prevented him from doing more than cast a supercilious eye over the book . |
| 23 | Even a slight awareness of A. S. Neill 's compassionate philosophy would have prevented him from making the inept link with the Nazis and racism . |
| 24 | The chances are that this shyness would have naturally prevented him from attaining such a high profile … but Morrissey slipped through the net and the consequences could be devastating . |
| 25 | When I mentioned Burma , his feeling of satisfaction was obvious , though his sense of integrity had prevented him from deciding that I should go to a country so close to his own heart . |
| 26 | I remember it was he himself who put it most aptly one day when mother had scolded him for commencing work at home on a customer 's suit . |
| 27 | They 'd suspected him of rigging her escape , and now their suspicions were confirmed . |
| 28 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |
| 29 | She 'd taxed him with trading them for snuff , which was his passion , and he 'd not denied it . |
| 30 | Atkins and his colleague had savagely threatened him against telling anyone , but he was influenced more by reluctance to distress the rest of his family as he assumed that they would be as helpless as himself . |