Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [prep] [art] [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 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 3 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 4 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 5 | He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead . |
| 6 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 7 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 8 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 9 | The official receiver or whoever is the chairman of the meeting must certify the appointment of the trustee , but not until the per son appointed has provided him with a written statement that he is a qualified insolvency practitioner and consents to act ( r 6.120(2) ) . |
| 10 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 11 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 12 | It has led him from the brooding atmosphere of his early novels to the limpid clarity of his last . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THE BUCK STOPS HERE : Trevor McDonald 's distinguished career has taken him from a poor , but loving , childhood in Trinidad to being ITN 's first solo anchorman Picture : BILL KENNEDY |
| 15 | Peter says that the weekend has left him with a lasting impression of the professionalism of the TA . |
| 16 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |
| 17 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 18 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 21 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 22 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 23 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 24 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 25 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 26 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 27 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 28 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 29 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 30 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |