Example sentences of "him [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 2 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 3 | He took with him strange plants and birds to show the King and Queen . |
| 4 | We 'll give him seventy-five milligrams of pethidine , get the shots and go from there . ’ |
| 5 | He seemed to have forgotten I had tried to walk out on him fifty kilometres or so back . |
| 6 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 7 | ‘ If I said to Robert once , I said to him fifty times , ’ his great-uncle was grumbling . |
| 8 | Sir Walter Scott , however , had no such constraints upon him fifty years later , and he had the added advantage of seeing Lady Grange 's journal . |
| 9 | Then he waited as one of the two Han brought him anti-static slippers while the other combed and plaited his hair . |
| 10 | In practice , Clarence 's grant was a dead letter in Richmondshire , although it gave him extensive interests elsewhere , notably in Lincolnshire and East Anglia . |
| 11 | In practice , Clarence 's grant was a dead letter in Richmondshire , although it gave him extensive interests elsewhere , notably in Lincolnshire and East Anglia . |
| 12 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 13 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 14 | Captain Crowe looked likely to be the last man to leave the ship but DeFreitas scuttled him eight minutes after he reached a courageous fifty with yet another which left the bat . |
| 15 | She paid him eight shillings — or 40p — a week to work at the 16-room house she had inherited . |
| 16 | In March , however , they relented and — perhaps persuaded by the convalescent Hamilton — agreed to pay him eight guineas . |
| 17 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 18 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 19 | But as a first-half Merson free kick ricocheted to him eight yards from goal he miscued . |
| 20 | Cerruti began work in his father 's factory at the age of eleven , and his 50 years of experience have given him strong convictions about style . |
| 21 | He was welding on top of a 900 ton oil storage tank which exploded , hurling him 120 feet into a wall . |
| 22 | Maud Bailey gave him potted shrimps , omelette and green salad , some Bleu de Bresse and a bowl of sharp apples . |
| 23 | The Director of Studies expressed strong misgivings over the amount of his time ( he claimed that it has ‘ cost ’ him 32 periods ) which the review of this small department had taken . |
| 24 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 25 | Marie Wassilieff , who ran the artists ’ canteen , gave him free meals and heaped advice upon him lavishly . |
| 26 | Yeah but do n't give him rubber lips . |
| 27 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 28 | After that he went to the pet shop which he despised but which occasionally sold him broken biscuits for William , cheap . |
| 29 | Now Marenches informed the king that the continued presence of the Shah would cause him grave problems . |
| 30 | A nurse has secretly slipped him some strips of paper in his hands . |