Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers .
2 On the one hand he was supposedly an inferior being , with anti-social habits and disgusting personality traits ; on the other hand he possessed a superior intelligence and sufficient group solidarity to leave him on the verge of world domination .
3 Setting up a business was a different challenge and Stan , with help from the Scottish Development Agency also took a sixteen week course with The Scottish Business school to help him with the mechanics of being an employer , selling and marketing his fossils .
4 So , no doubt as a result of some string-pulling from Bletchley , Harold 's local recruiting office was instructed by the War Office to recruit him into the Intelligence Corps .
5 He renewed his passport in August 1939 , and travelled with his second wife to Berlin , where ( not without difficulty ) he pursued Josef Goebbels 's propaganda ministry to employ him as an editor and announcer for radio broadcasts in English .
6 He said : ‘ Maurin asked the taxi driver to take him to the museum yesterday .
7 When Major Burrows was stationed at a camp in a nearby suburb Mrs Burrows , Eva and Margaret would take a train each Sunday afternoon to help him with the evening service he conducted for the soldiers .
8 Certainly , this seems more plausible than the story of Franco 's late arrival , which was almost certainly invented later as part of the propaganda campaign to present him as the powerful statesman for whom even Adolf Hitler would wait .
9 The last one-man show he ever held in London was staged at the Leger Gallery ( 1943 ) , and the only art school to accept him as a teacher was the Borough Polytechnic , where he taught part-time from 1945 to 1953 .
10 During 1941 Hillary persuaded the Air Ministry to send him to the United States on a speaking tour .
11 He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there !
12 Wright has not played for England since the European Championship game against Holland 18 months ago but Robson has been sufficiently impressed by his League form to recall him to the squad .
13 Abo Mukhtar will adopt him , she says , wrapping him in a swaddling cloth to protect him from the dirt and dust .
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