Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language . |
| 2 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 3 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 4 | He was also cursing his luck at being caught out in the open , when three figures stepped forward into the moonlight and stopped facing him across the intervening space . |
| 5 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 6 | Chapman called at Bastin 's home and tried to convince him of the spectacular career he would have at Highbury . |
| 7 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 8 | Suzy , 25 , talked to her new client by phone and arranged to meet to show him around the luxurious £130,000 property in Fulham , west London . |
| 9 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 10 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 11 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 12 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 13 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 14 | The Sheffield Star , in a piece not destined to endear him to the average Brightside voter , wrote of his ‘ ministerial pin stripes and patrician smooth accent . ’ |
| 15 | It may be that Borg realised quite soon that family life was not going to carry him through the great silence left behind by his renunciation of that terrible drug , competitiveness . |
| 16 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 17 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 18 | Okay , then you would all agree , you 've got to put him through the old P C course . |
| 19 | Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive . |
| 20 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 21 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 22 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 23 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 24 | She shifted the weight of his arm from her shoulders and began urging him towards the front door before his fabrications began to get even more elaborate . |
| 25 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 26 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 27 | His refusal to grant extra funding on the grounds of ‘ basic need ’ at the two schools in his own constituency created a political storm which threatened to deprive him of the Roman Catholic vote in the general election . |
| 28 | The glass was bullet-proof , sky-proof , sea-proof , plant-proof , stone-proof , everything-proof and he refused to come out of it , not even when the Headmaster threatened to throw him to the giant eel for being so cowardly . |
| 29 | His mother sought to protect him from the usual customs such as summoning the relatives to his father 's bedside , but the trauma was nevertheless very deeply felt . |
| 30 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |