Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [vb pp] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1914 he became a master at Eton College , where he remained during World War I , a heart murmur having disqualified him for military service . |
| 2 | The interview had left him with two clear intentions more firmly fixed than ever in his mind . |
| 3 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 4 | More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory . |
| 5 | He does not , however , have to pursue his own investigations if the parties have provided him with sufficient evidence : 14.8 . |
| 6 | His emphasis on the " common style " suggests that he is no longer interested in talking to himself but to others , and Four Quartets is at one level an oratorical performance : it would not be too much to say that all of his previous work has led him to this point , where poetry is married with public exhortation . |
| 7 | His subsequent career in equipment and clothing has kept him in close touch with needs , and there is no PE jargon in his down-to-earth advice . |
| 8 | These shoes had stood him in good stead . |
| 9 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 10 | The cruel climate and hard work had aged him by twenty years . |
| 11 | Captain Stephen Roskill , the official naval historian , had told me that Dönitz had informed him in 1959 that he had no reason to think that the German naval codes had been broken . |
| 12 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 13 | Timex management had told him of substantial losses in recent years and of the possibility of another massive deficit this year . |
| 14 | Earlier he had visited the American Consulate , where an attractive and sympathetic fellow countrywoman from North Carolina had advised him on all the sad yet necessary procedures consequent upon the death of an American national in Britain , and acquainted him with the costs of the transatlantic conveyancing of corpses . |
| 15 | Van Gelder also knew it , Denholm had reassured him on that point . |
| 16 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
| 17 | Fate had branded him on that October night as a gangster and a street-fighter . |
| 18 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 19 | Conran is convinced , too , that his experience of manufacturing in the early days has stood him in good stead as head of a retailing empire . |
| 20 | Even so , striking on or soon after January 15th would help Mr Bush underline , for the benefit of critics at home and abroad , the clear legal authority the UN has given him for military action . |
| 21 | In testimony to a House subcommittee in late April and early May , DuBois L. Gilliam , a former HUD official currently serving a prison sentence for manipulating housing grants , alleged that former HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce had ordered him on several occasions to award HUD grants on political considerations . |
| 22 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 23 | Surely if that tense moment had affected him at all he would not sound so cool and distant now as he reached for Chalon 's reins . |
| 24 | A strange fierce joy had filled him after that , and he had n't really heard anything Ashton or Smith had said to him . |
| 25 | Nature had endowed him with exceptional vitality and both Cagney himself and Warner Bros quickly appreciated how that vitality positively crackled before the camera . |
| 26 | Nothing else , for the rectory belonged to the church , and she had discovered that her late husband 's public generosity had run him into considerable debt . |
| 27 | In Galway itself , the scenes and actions of the past few years had brought him to early maturity as a willing recruit for the politics of the street fight . |
| 28 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 29 | Sarah Fleming had unsettled him in more ways than one . |
| 30 | He wished the coroner had told him about this ! |