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

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1 For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke .
2 It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class .
3 Then Brandt went into a tea shop , in spite of feeling that his new landlady 's fried bread for breakfast was going to be more than enough to see him through the day .
4 Their letter enclosed a quite unexpected gift of –100 , a sum more than sufficient to free him from the immediate necessity of hard choices , and a testimony of their faith in his genius .
5 Cos that allows him to the cost ?
6 He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States .
7 The novice flyer will normally require that the model 's response to the transmitter is at a minimum , to avoid any tendency to overcontrol , while the gyro has as much effect as possible to help him during the learning process .
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