Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a member of a board is not re-elected to the authority which appointed him at an ordinary election , he remains a board member until the first meeting of the authority after the election . |
| 2 | This is a role which provided him with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 3 | Consequently , rather than viewing the totalitarian structure of the PCF as a source of oppression , it is more productive to view it as the chosen institution within which Nizan found not only political asylum but also emotional and moral equilibrium , a refuge in short which provided him with a necessary disciplined working environment . |
| 4 | In addition to being a hunchback the painter Toulouse-Lautrec suffered from a condition which endowed him with an oversized penis . |
| 5 | Whilst on bail awaiting trial , he was served with statements of his co-accused which implicated him to a significant extent . |
| 6 | Chung ran a campaign — widely compared with that of Ross Perot in the US elections — which portrayed him as a political " outsider " with direct economic experience gleaned as the head of a giant commercial concern . |
| 7 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 8 | It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him , which warned him of a new impending danger . |
| 9 | It was the Physics which led him to Engineering , and the Engineering which took him as a National Serviceman to Germany and the experimental air fields . |
| 10 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
| 11 | He was a good artist , and he was certainly a competent amateur astronomer , sending several observations of comets and of the planet Uranus to the Gentleman 's Magazine and to the American Philosophical Society , which enrolled him as a foreign member in 1787 . |
| 12 | Pilot Stephen Grey was unhurt apart from a minor neck injury which hospitalised him for a short period . |
| 13 | Unfortunately he suffered damage to a knee which left him with a permanent slight limp . |
| 14 | To his increasing embarrassment , Montrose found himself bombarded with solicitations from three directions , which left him in an impossible situation . |
| 15 | Commander Leonard Burt , who was to be the recipient of Joyce 's confessions many years later , noted this sense of grievance which characterised him as a young man : |