Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 2 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 3 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 4 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 5 | He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead . |
| 6 | Although he left no explicit statement of belief , recent scholarship has shown him as a consistent sponsor of reform , both in his local activities and as an intermediary between suitors and the Crown . |
| 7 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 8 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 9 | The official receiver or whoever is the chairman of the meeting must certify the appointment of the trustee , but not until the per son appointed has provided him with a written statement that he is a qualified insolvency practitioner and consents to act ( r 6.120(2) ) . |
| 10 | A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) . |
| 11 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 12 | THE BUCK STOPS HERE : Trevor McDonald 's distinguished career has taken him from a poor , but loving , childhood in Trinidad to being ITN 's first solo anchorman Picture : BILL KENNEDY |
| 13 | Nobody in particular , and I s I use the word him , nobody particularly wants to question him , nobody particularly wants to get him in a bad mood . |
| 14 | Peter says that the weekend has left him with a lasting impression of the professionalism of the TA . |
| 15 | For Wesker , the fortunes of Shylock have been all too typical of a career plagued by bad luck which has left him with a sizeable canon of rarely performed work . |