Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 2 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 3 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 4 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 5 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 6 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 7 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 8 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 9 | One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 . |