Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] him a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hayling is a man of considerable and obvious intelligence , with dishy looks and great charm which made him a favourite with some of the women comrades . |
| 2 | He was a tyrant , a bully , and he 'd stolen her things — which made him a thief into the bargain ! |
| 3 | The distinctive thing about him which made him a legend in his lifetime and made his biography one of the Methodist best sellers of the century , was an immediate apprehension of the divine glory which issued naturally in leaping , dancing , and cheerful controversy with the world . |
| 4 | He had also been identified as one of those who had guarded the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack in June of that year , which made him an accomplice in the murder of US Navy diver , Robert Stetham . |
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| 7 | Dulles on 12 December 1957 went as far as to describe France as " a very weak partner indeed " and one which caused him a lot of anxiety . |
| 8 | Casting enables him to ask all sorts of personal questions , which give him an insight into the kind of life that young , beautiful French actresses live . |
| 9 | ‘ For Mr Hubbard its a hobby which costs him a lot of money . |
| 10 | CHRIS PICKERING , of Aintree who is now nearly 80 recalls a dockside incident which taught him a lesson in diplomacy ! |
| 11 | But he inspired awe not only because of his military resources , but also because of his lavishly spent wealth , his splendid building projects , the perception of his learning , the magnetism of his personality which brought him a following of other ecclesiastics . |
| 12 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 13 | It was a win which brought him a prize of £79,000 and a place in the lucrative Johnnie Walker World Championship in Jamaica in December . |
| 14 | He also headed a number of Courtaulds ' textile businesses at different times but it was mainly his knowledge of viscose which earned him a reputation as a leading world authority on the fibre . |
| 15 | ‘ There go the 1970s , ’ commented Hargreaves , ‘ there go the drinking seventies , ’ a comment which earned him a slap in the eye from Giles 's girlfriend Venetia : ‘ Drunkard yourself ! ’ she shouted , ‘ drunkard yourself ! ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , as we shall see , Gregory VII rebuked his too active agent Hugh , now archbishop of Lyons , for his officious energy in harrying the king of England to carry out papal decrees , without regard to the king 's virtues which earned him a claim to forbearance . |
| 17 | He persuaded Indian princes to fund the East India Association ( 1866 ) which gave him a platform for his campaign to open the Indian Civil Service to Indians and for publicizing his ‘ drain theory ’ , which presented British rule as a drain on the financial resources of India . |
| 18 | It was simply their headquarters where they came to trade , where they came to er perhaps attend law courts but particularly where the prior of came when he came to do services at the Minster because he was a canon of York as well as being canon or the parish of Bramham which gave him a seat in the Cathedral . |
| 19 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 20 | John from Burton on Trent takes a size 21 , which won him a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the owner of Britain 's biggest feet . |
| 21 | As the PR officer in charge of internal affairs , he launched an eight-time-a-year publication for employees , called Profile , which won him an Editing for Industry Certificate of Merit as a solo editor . |
| 22 | He has a special property in the goods , which gives him a lien over the goods until the whole of the price is paid or tendered . |
| 23 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |
| 24 | He possesses the Spirit of God 's Son , which makes him a son of God , and enables him to utter the family cry to God as ‘ Abba ’ . |
| 25 | One particularly interesting example is Kleinig 's conception of consent as ‘ an act in which one person tends to facilitate the initiative of another ’ in a manner which makes him a participant in that initiative who shares responsibility for it . |
| 26 | In the case of the discretionary sentence there is always a notional equivalent determinate sentence which could be imposed in accord with established sentencing practice but for the current mental state of the defendant which makes him a danger to the public . |