Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 2 | The rational consumer will choose point W on the budget line which places him on the highest attainable indifference curve , I 1 , . |
| 3 | The motives of public men are rarely as base or as quixotic as their enemies would have us believe ; and no portrait of MacDonald is complete which depicts him as the ambitious , fawning courtier of Labour mythology or the martyred patriot of his own invention . |
| 4 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 5 | The process of rehearsal draws upon a training which often reaches back into the singer 's boyhood , which provides him with the directed quickness of mind and the vocal stamina he requires , and which ensures that the choral results are generally quite passable and are sometimes excellent despite the constant absences , deputizations , hirings and firings that always threaten the homogeneity of what can be achieved . |
| 6 | Ironically , Gough 's rash challenge on Ferguson at Tannadice resulted in a booking which carries him over the disciplinary points threshold and costs Rangers the services of their captain when they visit Arbroath for the Scottish Cup , quarter-final tie on 6 March . |
| 7 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 8 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 9 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 10 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 11 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 12 | It identifies him with the Norman cause and the Norman heir , which becomes a threat if Duke William is successful . |
| 13 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |