Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 2 | Studio head Richard Zanuck paid him between one and two million dollars so that the film could be released that year , with a guarantee to compensate him if the show 's gross takings fell below $60,000 a week for an agreed period . |
| 3 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months in a young offenders ' institution . |
| 4 | Judge David Bryant sentenced him to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years and ordered him to pay £200 costs . |
| 5 | Judge Angus Stroyan QC sentenced him to six months imprisonment suspended for 15 months and ordered Gregory , of Bevanlee Road , South Bank , Middlesbrough , to pay £60 costs . |
| 6 | ‘ A thin man with fierce blazing eyes behind thick glasses , ’ Rebecca West called him in 1945 , ‘ a tiny fuzz of black hair fancifully arranged on his prematurely bald head , and wrists and ankles as straight as lead piping in their emaciation . ’ |
| 7 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 8 | The IRA bomb in Hyde Park left him with twenty serious shrapnel wounds . |
| 9 | Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge . |
| 10 | Umpire Frank Lee called him on 11 occasions for throwing in England 's only innings and , after the home side had wrapped up the game early , he was again called , in the exhibition match which followed , by the other umpire , Syd Buller , and was forced to complete his only over underarm . |
| 11 | It might all have been different had Gooch clung on to either of the two catches Nigel Briers offered him on 26 and 61 . |
| 12 | A further humiliation for Bush was the news that maverick Independent Ross Perot headed him in several states . |
| 13 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 14 | The leaders of the industry were shocked when Lord Chief Justice Goddard sentenced him to six months imprisonment . |
| 15 | Stewart gave the car its first win at Zandvoort , and victories at the Nurburgring , by a staggering four minutes , and at Watkins Glen ensured him of second place in the championship to his former team-mate Hill . |
| 16 | ‘ You 've got to fancy his chances , particularly after Graham Taylor watched him against United — that can only have helped his cause . |
| 17 | ( President Assad told him on that occasion that Saddam Hussein was like a chain-smoker : ‘ He can not help lighting another one before he has finished the first . |
| 18 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 19 | Bernhart Silberysen was the mayor in charge of the restoration , and the town council presented him with this bowl in thanks . |
| 20 | President Zia picked him for prime minister in March 1985 but he was criticised by the opposition for providing a democratic civilian facade to a military dictatorship . |
| 21 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 22 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 23 | His blue UN passport rescued him from many frightening situations , including the occasion armed guerillas surrounded his jeep in a warring Central American country . |
| 24 | Tuesday 's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen . |
| 25 | Important steps in reforming the structure of the economy during June included the launch of a mass privatization scheme , while the position of Yegor Gaidar , who was closely associated with the reform programme , was apparently strengthened when President Boris Yeltsin named him as Prime Minister on June 15 . |
| 26 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 27 | Mrs Sowerberry watched him in silent horror , already thinking about her future food bills , then took him upstairs to the shop . |
| 28 | A Teesside Crown Court jury cleared him of both charges but convicted him of arson last month . |
| 29 | The first study in recent years of this important Boston painter and teacher whose Paris training stood him in good stead in introducing into America a fascinating mixture of French Academicism , Barbizon and early Impressionism . |
| 30 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |