Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members of Leuchars mountain rescue team , who were on an exercise in the area , went to his aid and moved him to an area accessible for the helicopter . |
| 2 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
| 4 | Constanze attempted to launch him on a career similar to his father 's — as a child-prodigy pianist — and on returning to Vienna he took composition lessons with Salieri , who proclaimed his ‘ a rare talent ’ . |
| 5 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 6 | I told him at a funeral this afternoon that I was pulling him out of Saturday 's game . |
| 7 | At this point some vainglorious politician would step forward and present him with a book such as this one . |
| 8 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 9 | He was discharged in August 1943 and dedicated his first volume of short stories ( The Stuff to Give the Troops , 1944 ) to Hart-Davis , by then adjutant of the 6th battalion Coldstream Guards , who had saved him from a court martial . |
| 10 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 11 | I 've seen him at the club many times . |
| 12 | The adjutant directed him to the hospital next door , giving him written instructions on how to find the ward . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
| 14 | She could n't look him in the face any more . |
| 15 | " Have this one and save him from a fate worse than death . " |
| 16 | Well , she was n't going to let him off the hook that easily . |
| 17 | Scott made no secret of Leonard 's ambiguities regarding law , and he sought to ease him into a position nearer to his own , of both lawyer and poet . |
| 18 | Facing him at the office next day was like facing a firing squad . |
| 19 | Francis always takes him for a walk last thing before going to bed . |
| 20 | His appointment as lieutenant of the Tower in June 1660 placed him in a position vital to the maintenance of order in the City . |
| 21 | The man in charge of the investigation , Supt Stan Fletcher , said : ‘ Local police in Newcastle arrested him at a hotel last night . |
| 22 | And when he saw producer Joe Pasternak , the renowned MGM star-maker , approaching him in the corridor one day , Nicholson spoke up : ‘ Hiya , Joe . |
| 23 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 24 | I read with interest of the lady golfer who , when confronted by a naked man wearing only a bowler hat , asked him whether he was a member , and then hit him with a Number 8 iron . |
| 25 | Mr. Gilbert hit him on the head several times with the bottle and they were both kicked . |
| 26 | Robyn watched him for a moment unseen , clutching at the door , forcing herself to feel all right . |
| 27 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 28 | It is characteristic of Milton to wish his audience to see him as a writer familiar with highly regarded literary writing and able to employ it to more serious purpose than it had been previously . |
| 29 | I never seem to see him around the pub these days . ’ |
| 30 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |