Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As he peered through the binoculars he felt a tremor of excitement course through him at the prospect of seeing the printed images come to life .
2 He sat up immediately on his cot , feeling a surge of pleasurable anticipation course through him at the prospect of one more day stalking the great game animals of southern Asia through the beautiful tropical forest where he now felt almost at home .
3 There would be programmes about him on the television .
4 Mr Forsyth 's support for student loans has ensured little support for him on the campus but , that apart , the student vote seems to be as divided as it is in the wider constituency .
5 There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward .
6 He had no idea where he was , except that it must be somewhere in the wilds of Wales , well hidden from any possibility of rescue ; and he took his first unwilling look about him in the conviction that captivity could mean nothing better than solitude , close confinement and squalor .
7 He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’
8 money for him across the road ?
9 I am raising money for him at the moment .
10 His economic measures bore fruit , but the constitution was overturned by Peisistratos , who made himself tyrant early in the second quarter and held power ( with interruptions ) and his sons after him till the expulsion of Hippias in 510 .
11 I could n't take my eyes off him at the office and five o'clock was such a wrench — all those hours before I would see him again .
12 ‘ And I never take my eyes off him during the show .
13 She had been in her mid-forties , a smart , efficient-looking woman who had hardly taken her eyes off him throughout the trial .
14 In 1696 Lowther of Lowther , tired of contesting elections , employed his cousin to seek a viscountcy for him from the king .
15 She flirted outrageously , promising that she would secure an interview for him with the Queen but she always seemed to fail .
16 There had been no conscious pleasure for him in the attack .
17 We had enough of Blobby yesterday , without any mention of him on the programme again .
18 Ever since Ben had first found that single mention of him in the journals .
19 A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically .
20 She had brief glimpses of him in the wings , his head unpleasantly close to the head of a girl called Mona who was playing Prince Charming .
21 ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’
22 She says , ‘ Hello , Wyn ’ , as though they were friends , and steps past him into the yard .
23 Many physicists ( pronounced ‘ fizzy-sists ’ ) have large pictures of him on the walls of their laboratories — just as you might have pictures of your favourite pop stars on the walls of your bedroom at home .
24 On 2 March 1988 the first defendant surrendered the lease in consideration of the plaintiff accepting goods listed in an inventory , which were later sold for £309 , in full and final settlement of all claims and demands against him under the lease .
25 He added that this was on condition that he would withdraw claims for defamation of character made against the IJF if the IJF would agree not to take any legal action against him in the future .
26 He will carry disappointment with him for the rest of his political career and , indeed , to the end of his days .
27 Vic takes the Daily Mail with him to the lavatory , the one at the back of the house , next to the tradesmen 's entrance , with a plain white suite , intended for the use of charladies , gardeners and workmen .
28 If Keith Wright 's performance in this match was anything to go by , then he will certainly be glad when Jackson is back riding shotgun with him in the Hibs attack .
29 At the end of the case people would see a bit of film of the child sitting on the drawing-room sofa between his parents who never took their eyes from him during the interview .
30 Though his tone was abrupt , Polly sensed a lessening of tension in him at the change of subject .
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