Example sentences of "[vb past] him [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught him and it turned out it was the assistant chief constable 's son . |
| 2 | The poem describes how ‘ even when he was in France ’ — in the context of the poem it is reasonable to presume the front line trenches — ‘ the sun still woke him as it had at home ’ . |
| 3 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 4 | There was a rough equality between them which pleased him since it ignored and slipped through the magical armour of those clothes , the possessions , the name , the title , the carriage and four , the weight of deference and the history of servility . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him that it had been great . ’ |
| 6 | Then when I told him that it takes a man to make a man , he hit me right across the face . |
| 7 | Despite Arnold Palmer 's memorable 1962 — when once again the golden hat-trick eluded him as it had in 1960 , with Open Championship and US Masters success , and only losing the US Open in a playoff with Jack Nicklaus — he had a quiet Open in 1963 . |
| 8 | Its continued presence always surprised him since it served no purpose that he could see except symbolically to cut off the headland and to give travellers pause to consider whether they really wanted to continue . |
| 9 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |
| 10 | It seemed such a childish thing he 'd allowed to upset him ; a silly woman telling fortunes … but silly or not , she had brushed the truth , and hit him where it hurt . |
| 11 | The cold water shocked him as it tore at his bare neck His fear turned to blind rage . |
| 12 | Murder appalled him because it took everything from the victim with no possibility of restitution , it blotted out memories of a past and hopes for a future . |
| 13 | I also asked him if it wouldn ‘ t be better to sell David Rocastle instead . |
| 14 | I 'm sure he would n't have liked the way we communally beheaded him but it did the job . |
| 15 | Reid admitted : ‘ That hurt him and it got to the stage where he was n't getting in there to take chances . |
| 16 | ‘ I saw him but it did n't get me very far ; he 's one of the old and crusted . |
| 17 | It struck him that it seemed weird that Leeds rejected continuous bids from Blackburn all through the season and then suddenly , out of the blue , accepted one . |