Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pron] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no really bad faults but you had to be careful that nothing startled him , such as a bird suddenly rising , and on one occasion he did bolt . |
| 2 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
| 3 | Perturbed by the keenness of his loss , afraid that it made him , in truth , a stuffed-shirt Englishman as Hannele had assumed , Edward Carrington went to the bathroom and began to fill the mighty iron tub . |
| 4 | Well he took the old and he offered him out . |
| 5 | ‘ … directly reminiscent of the existence of the individual in infancy before he could talk readily , when everyone was bigger and stronger , when chairs and tables were mountainous and had sharp injurious edges , when he could flood the dark universe with light if someone lifted him to press the switch , but when usually his greatest efforts were ineffectual to change anything . |
| 6 | But , when she suddenly discovered an urgent desire to know his name , she knew that she would only end up feeling foolish if she asked him what it was in this moment of parting . |
| 7 | it was so erm steep and it took him half the service to get over , just , well then in the equity I am not fit , I 'm gon na lose weight and do exercise |
| 8 | It made him feel afraid but it excited him too . |
| 9 | ‘ When we dragged Cpl Edwards out of his seat the back of his head had been blown off — but I still thought he would be OK when we got him to hospital . |
| 10 | Ben was eight months old when we had him . |
| 11 | A vet who checked family records discovered he was 17 to 18 years old when he examined him at the Halewood RSPCA shelter yesterday evening . |
| 12 | Then I saw Mr Shepherd — and he looked so — so strange that I kissed him too . ’ |
| 13 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 14 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 15 | I think it fortunate that I met him as I am persuaded I can cure him of his disorder or turn the evil to good ’ . |
| 16 | They further assert that in the course of the pay-off Commissioner Zen 's identity was revealed and that the gang were so incensed that they assaulted him . |
| 17 | Fielding said it was a mob joint and I believed him : brocade , matt light , as quiet as a church . |
| 18 | Anyway , th the guy we had tonight reckoned that er he never quite got to grips with er Bernstein and he 's f and he , he apologized for being stuck in restrictive which er he could n't even remember that it was called restrictive until somebody told him but he said ah yes that 's it , but yes I never managed to he said I never managed to really get very far with that . |
| 19 | His jacket was flame-proofed and we gave him protective padding at the back , just in case . ’ |
| 20 | Her answering smile was thoughtful as she watched him duck gracefully through the doorway . |
| 21 | It had become a joke between them ; he had said something similar when she told him she was off to Milan . |
| 22 | This was indeed fortunate as it prevented him from revealing the fossilization of his mind by repeating much of what he had written in 1986 . |
| 23 | ‘ It was dark when I saw him , ’ said the boy unwillingly . |
| 24 | Mother went on like someone demented when she found him . |
| 25 | He nearly had a coronary when I told him you were a fuel technician with IMP ! ’ |
| 26 | He seemed relieved when I told him I was reading anthropology and , looking somewhat apprehensively over his shoulder at the sociology building , he muttered ‘ well thank goodness you 're not taking bloody sociology , with all those left wing bastards who hate the polis ’ . |
| 27 | Annette spent the intervening time with her son who had been made as comfortable as possible and she told him that she would stay with him until he went for the operation and would then go home but would return first thing in the morning . |
| 28 | He felt upset if anyone touched him . |
| 29 | full-time until she married him . |
| 30 | I was really goody-goody until I met him ! |