Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 3 | The boy fixed him with a final look , but said no more , and slipped away into the crowd , only turning back once more . |
| 4 | Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach . |
| 5 | The Rump Parliament appointed him to a special commission to overhaul naval and customs administration , to the second high court of justice , to the post of check inwards at the London customs , and to the Hale commission on law reform . |
| 6 | If it failed , there would be no mercy shown him by the enraged Executioner . |
| 7 | That effort marked him as a classic possible and his work on the gallops leaves no doubt in my mind that he has trained on and can dispose of Azhar on his way to better things . |
| 8 | Later his mother apprenticed him to a lithographic printer . |