Example sentences of "him [prep] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not have enthused him for their particular brand of political idealism , but they certainly sowed seeds of great potential musically . |
| 2 | The boys at school were sure to snigger at him behind his back , and the Irishman and his rough friends would have one more excuse to belittle him for their own amusement . |
| 3 | So they returned each to his own country , blessing him for their deliverance , and magnifying his great bounty ; and forthwith they sent him tribute and acknowledged themselves to be his vassals . |
| 4 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
| 5 | Schmeichel seemed certain to miss Monday ‘ s Premier League match at Southampton because Denmark need him for their game in Latvia on Wednesday . |
| 6 | The second , and the one with which he is still struggling , required him to search for a means of making the pupils less dependent on him for their mathematics . |
| 7 | It was clear to me that they had spared him in order to groom him for their own uses . |
| 8 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 9 | Many of the clients who depended on him for their pensions have had to go back to work after their life savings were wiped out . |
| 10 | Not that the Irish manager , Noel Murphy , has too many doubts : ‘ If only the Irish selectors had chosen him for their second game instead of bringing him in halfway through the campaign , he would be inked in by now . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Great credit is due to Mr Peterken and the team he has gathered around him for their initiative and vision about finance . |
| 12 | He has few friends , and already the pressure Ipuky and Reni are putting on him through their friends is filtering down to me . |
| 13 | PAN members chose him as their presidential candidate because privately he scorned his party 's old and , as he saw it , timid leadership almost as much as he scorned the PRI . |
| 14 | Some of the students started to use him as their confessor . |
| 15 | As for Mr Gorbachev himself , he is desperate for the party to stay in one piece because he knows that , once on their own , neither hardliners nor reformers would be likely to want him as their leader . |
| 16 | The Americans , who see him as their property , move in an army corps for his protection . |
| 17 | After this , most of the east and south-east of Moorish Spain offered tribute to El Cid , acknowledging him as their overlord and paying out 95,000 dinars a year for his protection . |
| 18 | This seems to have been the last of Hope 's involvement in actual building , and with the founding of the Saturday , he turned to journalism , although in 1865 the Institute of British Architects elected him as their President . |
| 19 | It 's but one of several the NME has received from Nazi filth rushing to defend Morrissey and claim him as their own . |
| 20 | Skarsnik 's fame has grown amongst the other tribes , and today all the Night Goblins of Karak Eight Peaks , and many others besides , hail him as their undisputed master . |
| 21 | In 1714 , the laird of Gleneagles solicited the post of bailie of the regality of Lennox for his son James Haldane , an advocate who ‘ not haveing reccommendation or interest enought to bring him quickly into business … thought this might contribute some thing to it ’ , but the Duke of Montrose kept such appointments firmly in the hands of Graham gentlemen who looked upon him as their chief . |
| 22 | He attempted a takeover bid of the major fascist groups , demanding their subordination and acceptance of him as their new leader . |
| 23 | The disasters that befell his army paradoxically heightened his personal charisma : even the barons of Outremer continued to look on him as their one potential saviour . |
| 24 | He would do so , wrote Edward , ‘ out of love for you who are our lord and cousin and our very dear friend ’ , but only when the Scots obeyed him as their liege lord . |
| 25 | In 1814 indeed , after his triumph over Marshal Soult at Orthez , Wellington himself was made much of by the local Royalists , who greeted him as their ‘ liberator ’ and gave a great ball in his honour . |
| 26 | Ko Nu was elected President of the University Students ' Union ; the students looked up to him as their mentor . |
| 27 | They depended upon him for their pleasure , they admired him because he had a skill they did not , they liked him because he was charming and energetic , but they did not treat him as their equal . |
| 28 | The young , the bold , the lowly paid and overworked , acknowledged him as their spiritual leader . |
| 29 | The dealer then approaches the arms manufacturers telling them that if they appoint him as their agent , he will get them a contract in return for a percentage of the value of the transaction , which could be as low as 3 per cent , or as high as 15 depending on how specialized is the equipment required . |
| 30 | The immediate problem lay in Aquitaine , where some of the nobles who had been close to the defunct Pippin I , had refused to accept the " disinheritance " of Pippin 's son and instead recognised him as their king . |