Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] him [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether dining in the glittering salons of Mayfair or ministering to the sick in Yorkshire or Somerset , Smith reduced all who met him to a state of breathless mirth . |
| 2 | Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man . |
| 3 | His injuries were so severe his own father who found him near a railway footbridge at Didcot Parkway did n't recognise him . |
| 4 | With scrupulous fairness Hall also reproduces in an appendix a report by Karin Figala of Munich , who provided him with a summary of her own research on Newton 's alchemical studies . |
| 5 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 6 | 18 MINUTES : Le Tissier took a corner from the right and Hall , escaping his marker , connected with a tremendous header to score against the club who rejected him as a 15-year-old . |
| 7 | There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings , including his own , an anti-philosopher , a disconcerting jester , gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought . |
| 8 | One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge . |
| 9 | He was , with Giulio Argan who predeceased him by a month , and Federico Zeri , perhaps the leading opinion-former in the Italian art world , known to the general public from his articles in L'Espresso and then , from 1977 , La Repubblica . |
| 10 | Gerald Kaufman is another who will hesitate to play the sporting card , although there are those who remember him as a midfield dynamo , eternally squabbling with the referee and being booked for ‘ violence of the tongue ’ , an offence which he is said to have invented . |
| 11 | The Lebanese man in the dock says he was invited back to the flat , and it was Kim who threatened him with a knife . |
| 12 | Walking home from his job one payday , he was set upon by two young men who hit him with a stick , pushed him to the ground and seized his meagre wages . |
| 13 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 14 | Both Thomas Grenville and G. J. Spencer ( second Earl Spencer ) [ qq.v. ] were among the collectors who employed him as a facsimilist . |
| 15 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 16 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 17 | he was saying that he was frightened of Jack Meridew , who treated him like a punch bag . |
| 18 | Baker 's part in such compromises angered conservatives in the country who saw him as a closet liberal subverting the president 's conservative instincts . |
| 19 | One day he slipped off alone , out of interest , to look up a local doctor , who took him on a tour of hospitals . |
| 20 | On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior . |
| 21 | A friend of mine who accompanied him to a play disputed this , but it was true . |
| 22 | He was presented to the Governor , Lord Plunkett , who presented him with a portrait of himself . |
| 23 | ‘ A friend made contact with the chief of the tribe , ’ Steven explains , ‘ who presented him with a bone replica of the throne from which our logo was made . ’ |
| 24 | On his retirement , Sammy Cook ( right ) is bid farewell by Rod Turnbull , Joint Managing Director , who presented him with a leather wallet containing a check . |
| 25 | His services were recognized both by the shah , who presented him with a sword , and by the governor-general , Lord Hastings ( Francis Rawden , later first Marquis of Hastings , q.v . ) . |
| 26 | Frank Peter Zimmermann is a fine artist , a most gifted player , who delivers admirable accounts of these three different Violin Concertos. he also has the advantage of committed and clearly well-rehearsed support from a very good orchestra under a talented conductor who follows him like a cat . |
| 27 | As soon as he stepped out into the fluorescent-lit corridor , he was met by an official who hurried him into a briefing room . |
| 28 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |
| 29 | Fulcher lunged at Mr Leonard who pushed him into a bedroom and then took the knife from him . |
| 30 | The secondary premise of Sean 's Show , as described by producer Katie Lander , is that ‘ he 's being controlled by scriptwriters who treat him as a sitcom character . |