Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This remedy had certainly done him no harm , for he was a sprightly eighty-year old . |
| 2 | For answer , the Robemaker lifted his arms out so that the great black cloak fanned out giving him the outline of a massive bat or a creature of prey . |
| 3 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 4 | Ah , , he has complained now to the Vatican that he , any more , because of , Swiss the community does n't give him the |
| 5 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 6 | His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect . |
| 7 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 8 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 9 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 10 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 11 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 12 | I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son . |
| 13 | as if Oscar did n't teach him a lesson . |
| 14 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 15 | Batty certainly ca n't be excused on the grounds the manager did n't give him a ‘ fair crack of the whip ’ can he ? |
| 16 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 17 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 18 | This subject does n't give him a chance to do so . |
| 19 | One or two ugly scenes had occurred between him and Paul Danquah and though they remained friends Minton did not offer him the use of the self-contained flat at the back of the ground floor in his new home . |
| 20 | But his hyperactive personality has also made him an easy subject for parody . |
| 21 | His aspect was cheerful and his speech and motion did both declare him a gentleman . ’ |
| 22 | Faced with growing hostility or boredom over Europe , M Mitterrand threatened at the weekend to hold a referendum if the two parliamentary chambers do not give him a two-thirds majority for constitutional changes . |
| 23 | If Steen was there , Charles had only to tell him the truth ; if he was n't , then he could leave the photographs with an anonymous note explaining Jacqui 's innocence . |
| 24 | In 1915 , Grand Admiral von Tirpitz confided to his diary : ‘ The Kaiser does not give him a chance . ’ |
| 25 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 26 | Mine had the same amount , while Thessy 's only contained a hundred , though the proctologist had also given him the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat . |
| 27 | Handling the fast terrain with confidence several sceptics had previously labelled him a mudlark with no acceleration - Captain Dibble jumped superbly under champion Peter Scudamore , gradually grinding Dalkey Sound into submission . |
| 28 | A TOT drowned in a garden pond as his mum nipped out to buy him an ice cream from a van . |
| 29 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 30 | His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment . |