Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year .
2 A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules .
3 Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid .
4 ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year .
5 ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year .
6 If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side .
7 There was a little crowd underneath him , beseeching him with the heavy solemn common-sense of drunks to ‘ come down and not be a fool ’ .
8 She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside .
9 If he wants anybody to lead him to the so-called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it .
10 And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time .
11 Alfred McTear , 48 , has contracted pneumonia and was unable to start giving evidence yesterday to the commission appointed to hear him before the full legal hearing , which may be two years away .
12 I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him .
13 He seemed a genial and indestructible landmark in the history of American music , in spite of defective hearing which had bothered him since the late Seventies .
14 The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours .
15 Everyone at Didcot , myself included , are truly elated about it because we 're in the business of winning , Nigel 's a winner ; if we can provide him with the right technical equipment next year , I 'm sure he 'll win a number of races and indeed his ambition and our objective jointly is to win a driver 's , a world championship driver 's title before he retires .
16 Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts .
17 On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents .
18 It had to be an art that did not separate him from the uncultured poor but was founded in them , gathering them to him in a home of art they could all share , a home that sheltered and consoled ; a warm place .
19 When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats .
20 Cinzia brought them both large measures of whisky and sat down astride the wicker chair in front of the writing desk , facing him over the ridged wooden back .
21 Facing him across the bleached wooden plank , Melissa became aware of an extraordinary change in his manner .
22 His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul .
23 I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years .
24 She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room .
25 Assisting him in the difficult early days were ‘ ski buddies ’ , able-bodied skiers who gave one-to-one tuition .
26 I am looking forward to seeing him in the French Open and hopefully he will win it this year !
27 An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 .
28 In America , where they have a fondness for creating lists of the greatest ever people , his Plight of English has placed him among the very top writers on the English language .
29 I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable .
30 She pulled the door back a foot or so then slammed it forward , catching him between the heavy wooden door and the frame .
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