Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand . |
| 3 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
| 4 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 5 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 6 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 7 | Creed directed him to a narrow sidestreet . |
| 8 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 9 | Bede welcomed him as a new Josiah , the king of Judah in whose reign a religious reform movement purified the Temple worship , but came to lament the decline , as he saw it , of ecclesiastical standards after the death of Aldfrith , sentiments echoed later by Boniface . |
| 10 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 11 | Edward observed him with a certain bitterness ; such simplicity of need could seem enviable . |
| 12 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 13 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 14 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 15 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 16 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 17 | CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 . |
| 18 | Corbett entrusted him with a short letter in which he asked the King to supply simple answers to what Corbett considered simple questions . |
| 19 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 20 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 21 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 22 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 23 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 24 | The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 27 | As the child subjected him to a solemn , no-nonsense appraisal , Ashley 's heart began to hammer behind her ribs . |
| 28 | Anabelle watched him for a long while , but he did n't twitch a muscle . |
| 29 | Communist party orthodoxy presented him with a unique opportunity to voice his frustration and anger . |
| 30 | And after Cardinal Red carried him to a two and a half length win over Gaelstrom in the Belle Epoque Sefton Novices Hurdle , de Haan said : ‘ That has set me up perfectly for the National . |