Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 2 | His report , an Essay on Convict Discipline ( 1838 ) , was so condemnatory of official policy that Franklin dismissed him in 1838 . |
| 3 | He thinks it 's ‘ nice ’ that people credit him with changing British photography , with breaking down the class barriers , with producing memorable images , but he also seems slightly amused by it all . |
| 4 | He liked to think that people put him above that kind of thing . |
| 5 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 6 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 7 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 8 | Fairbrother was shuffling reluctantly out of the stone doorway as he returned , and Richard greeted him with sarcastic cheerfulness . |
| 9 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , dear , you do n't want to hear my stories , ’ he would say when Benny and Eve plagued him for some information . |
| 11 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 12 | His lips twisted in scorn , and Lissa hated him for that look . |
| 13 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 14 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 15 | And God bless him for that . |
| 16 | Well , I think we 'll get a lot of calls , and people remember him with great fondness . |
| 17 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |
| 18 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 19 | Lennox has not yet been hit in his 21 fights and if Razor gets him with that left smash , it 's goodnight . ’ |
| 20 | He obstructed collection of ship money in 1638 and Poole returned him to both 1640 Parliaments . |
| 21 | Whitelegge 's brother-in-law Victor Horsley [ q.v. ] served on the commission , and Whitelegge supplied him with pathological specimens from rabid dogs caught around Nottingham . |
| 22 | He would like Isobel and Dorothy to see him like this . |
| 23 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 24 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 25 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |
| 26 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 27 | Educated at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Phil Richardson had initially shown great promise as a goalkeeper and played professionally with Aston Villa before injury forced him into premature retirement . |
| 28 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 29 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 30 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |