Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd had persuaded Coleridge to take him as a pupil at £80 a year ; but when his wealthy father , a member of the banking family , insisted that the arrangement could last only for a year , Coleridge 's expectation of a regular income suddenly vanished , and Lloyd eventually settled with him as an occasional lodger , not a pupil . |
| 2 | Now Sebastian is dead , long dead , and Alix is married to Brian Bowen , son of a saw polisher , grandson of a furnaceman , and often sits with him on an old settee in her stockinged feet . |
| 3 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 4 | He had frankly given no thought whatsoever to the child 's name ; he had not yet thought of him as an identity anyway . |
| 5 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |