Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cadfael turned to give him a long , thoughtful look , and a few white petals that had floated and lodged in the rough cloth of his sleeve caught the stirring of air from the door , and floated free again , riding the draught into the pale , bright sunlight . |
| 2 | ‘ We were in the lane after Sacco left , ’ said Nooty , ‘ and it was getting really cold and Dorcas said to take him the other side of the hedge and , well , it was me who said you can see rabbits in this field sometimes , and he said find a rabbit-hole . |
| 3 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 4 | Loss of manuscripts or illustrations seem to cause him the greatest concern . |
| 5 | Outside the front entrance of the House of Mattli Paula turned to give him a quick impulsive hug . |
| 6 | The fact that he had very little free consecutive time for his own writing began to worry him a great deal , and he missed the familiar life of Kensington , with its public house and local shops . |
| 7 | Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ . |
| 8 | Major Robert Burrows had cancer , but Eva 's arrival seemed to give him a new lease of life . |
| 9 | Yet the authorities in America refused to give him a green card as a full-time athlete because they said he was n't good enough . |
| 10 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |