Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 3 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 4 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 5 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 6 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 7 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 8 | Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 . |
| 9 | A family connection with the lord chancellor , John , Baron Somers [ q.v. ] , drew him to the Whig side in politics , but he was no slavish follower of a party . |
| 10 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 11 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 12 | Maisie snorted and , following the sound of his voice , traced him to the wooden bench . |
| 13 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 14 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 15 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 16 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 17 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 18 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 19 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 20 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 21 | He tried to break free , but he could not ; there were too many of them , manhandling him along the narrow jetty . |
| 22 | In the early hours of Thursday morning , the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut . |
| 23 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 24 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 25 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 26 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 27 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 28 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 29 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 30 | Unless it was true , as he 'd alleged , that the women had robbed him before tossing him in the stinking water . |