Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made him the perfect fling . |
| 2 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 3 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 4 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 5 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 6 | This made him an acceptable candidate as protector and , once he held that office , helped to ensure that he could call on the backing of the Yorkist establishment . |
| 7 | Ever a man for taking the particular to exhibit the general , this allowed him a global crack at the Scots : he claimed that they were not interested in doing anything unless it had natural awkwardness in it : ‘ What can not be done without some uncommon trouble or particular expedient , will not often be done at all . |
| 8 | When piling the buttercream on to the teddy 's body , try to mound it up quite high to give him a tubby appearance . |
| 9 | EVER since I saw David Bellamy disappearing down a crack in a garden path to demonstrate that we all had our own ‘ personal schooool of evolution ’ close at hand , I have been prepared to concede him an eternal place among the inexorably tenacious . |
| 10 | Mr Wilson says this gave him a different approach as well as a wider experience of business . |
| 11 | This gave him a one-stroke advantage over two players -Bill Nicolson , of Coventry , who had 73 , 69 , and Richard Latham , a local player , who managed 70 , 72 . |
| 12 | This gave him an endless shopping list of radical causes which had no apparent connection , but were bound together by the radical-chic lifestyle of their supporters . |
| 13 | This gave him an invaluable insight into the boardroom and helped to bridge the gap between financial controller and finance director . |
| 14 | John Watson tends to regard himself as Mike 's adopted father , but Mike has inherited the substantial Lester shareholding and this gives him a considerable amount of independence ( which is not always to John Watson 's taste ) . |
| 15 | This gives him an unrivalled knowledge of the way in which banks operate , and contacts inside them . |
| 16 | This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) . |
| 17 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 18 | This makes him a good friend . |
| 19 | One would even be delighted to give him a helping hand . |
| 20 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 21 | Indeed , they are likely to win him a new reputation as a man for whom the boom never ended . |
| 22 | We are some way from the context of the debate , but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered , I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office . |
| 23 | Michael Bridges , the scientific journalist who first revealed to the public at large that this project existed — and we all owe him a great debt … ’ |
| 24 | We all owe him a great debt of gratitude , and we wish him well . |
| 25 | But Tony 's sparkling form at England B level is sure to give him the left wing spot and set him up for the Test against Canada on October 17 . |
| 26 | He also practised medicine and magic , and the latter brought him an unsavoury reputation . |
| 27 | The young pedlar cast him a wary glance and apparently decided on practicality over valour . |
| 28 | An opening single followed by a maximum 4 gave him a commanding advantage and a double , three ends later , gave him the set . |
| 29 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 30 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |