Example sentences of "[noun] by [v-ing] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Valerie cut short further interior monologue by gracing him with a smile and saying , ‘ I just brought Lesley-Jane some home-made soup for the interval . |
| 2 | Mr. Pegg was convicted on 25 March 1985 before Caulfield J. and a jury of the murder of one Peter Goddard by stabbing him with a knife . |
| 3 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
| 4 | On June 15 the military expressed their support for Gen. Chaovalit by appointing him as a special adviser to the Internal Security Command , the Supreme Command , and the combined armed forces . |
| 5 | At the end of the opera , Parsifal heals Amfortas by touching him with a spear , and Kundry is able , at last , to die . |
| 6 | In the past , freemasons have labelled and slandered the Christian God by reducing him to a miniature deity . |
| 7 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 8 | Estella and Miss Havisham reduce the reader 's sympathy towards Pip by turning him into a snob at the beginning and Magwitch helps to redeem Pip at the end by bringing out his loyalty . |
| 9 | The determination Alexander demonstrated as a war-leader undoubtedly resurfaced on a number of occasions after Russia made peace , but explaining the emancipation of the serfs by depicting him as a latter-day Peter the Great oversimplifies Russian politics between 1855 and 1861 and says almost nothing about the shape of the emancipation settlement . |
| 10 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 11 | The court thought it had nailed Mr Nadir 's feet to the floor by making him post a record-breaking £3.5m ( $1.5m ) . |
| 12 | And when the colonel himself seemed to have taken matters into his own hands by delegating him to a job that tired him out day after day , week after week , it seemed they had been successful . |
| 13 | For Great Britain , the Department of Trade and Industry persuaded Luke Rittner , former Secretary General of the Arts Council , to act as its cultural adviser , but wasted the invitation by equipping him with a totally inadequate budget . |
| 14 | ENGLAND manager Graham Taylor has recognised the outstanding form of Middlesbrough goalkeeper Stephen Pears by including him in a B squad for a friendly in Czechoslovakia next Tuesday . |
| 15 | The ANC was strongly opposed to such a meeting on the grounds that it would give undeserved legitimacy to Buthelezi by treating him as a leader of equivalent standing . |
| 16 | In addition , registration operates to protect the security holder by providing him with a certain degree of protection as to the validity and priority of his charge once it is registered ; this in turn benefits the company by enabling it to give the chargee the guarantee of such protection . |
| 17 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 18 | Money enables an individual to delay a potential purchase to the most convenient time by providing him with a way in which to store his purchasing power . |