Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison .
2 They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people .
3 ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’
4 ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says .
5 Rocky introduced them as Carl Wood , Jubal Cantrell and Austen Parker , but Jim Miller would have recognised the latter two as Jube and Red , the pair who had baited him and given him such a hard time before Rocky 's intervention had rescued him .
6 The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it .
7 No one who continues to sin has either seen him or knows him .
8 No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him . ’
9 And I have asked him in and I have fed him and given him milk and wine and a share of the fire !
10 Now here , lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check , Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long , that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride .
11 It was she who was the essential element in the alchemy which had absolved him and promised him such a refreshment of security and calm here .
12 The strong-bodied American , with his rugged features , had spoken with a quiet simplicity ; and as he 'd watched him and heard him , Morse thought he could well have enjoyed a pint with the fellow .
13 Beryl said : ‘ I 've told him and told him but he took no notice …
14 Catherine Crane fell silent , and he fished out the one-page note Teversham had handed him and read it , scowling .
15 Emboldened by this , he had gone straight up to her and said that he had heard she had called him and wanted him .
16 Bruised and bloodied from days of interrogation on the floor of a cell that was an inch deep in his own shit and piss , the Colonel had found him and freed him .
17 And I still would have known the real father , known him and loved him .
18 His own doctor had recently examined him and found him perfectly healthy . ’
19 He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone .
20 He took the sealed letter DeVore had given him and handed it across .
21 ‘ After taking into account several factors , the committee have severely reprimanded him and warned him that any further misconduct would result in very harsh penalties being imposed . ’
22 On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out .
23 She had hit him and fed him , shouted at him for being idle and comforted him when he woke in the night and was afraid .
24 Before Lachlan could free it Hector had tripped him and soused him , for the cold water to bring him to his senses .
25 The moment Owen had come in , however , he had waylaid him and taken him off behind the potted palms .
26 All the people who had taunted him and hurt him and confused him and denied him .
27 Garry must be a much better lover than I would have thought him , or is it the legacy his godfather has left him that tempts you ? ’
28 He was still uncertain how much his mother had left him but thought it was probably between £40,000 and £50,000 .
29 He had lost another close companion , another friend , one who had helped and guided him and given him such pleasure .
30 It had puzzled him and made him very slightly jealous .
  Next page