Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
2 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
3 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
4 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
5 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
6 | Whilst driving through London , Stephen Waldorf was shot several times and severely injured by officers who confused him with another person whom they said they were seeking to capture . |
7 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
8 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
9 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
10 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
11 | Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time . |
12 | I am very sensitive to my hon. Friend 's reference to Warren Hastings ' because it was Edmund Burke , a kinsman of mine , who prosecuted him over that length of time . |
13 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
14 | Marcus , thus present occasionally at Jack 's house , where he evidently felt his visits to be a matter of duty , inevitably encountered the women , who treated him with suitable respect and awe , and Jack , who was nervously affable , and even on two occasions Gildas to whom he nodded politely . |
15 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
16 | And no-one was more delighted than the man who brought him to Central Park — scout Eric Hawley . |
17 | Einstein was fortunate in having a friend Marcel Grossmann who introduced him to Riemannian geometry and who worked with him until Einstein left Zurich in 1914 . |
18 | And he smiles as he talks of the best friend and rival who accompanied him on those weekend trips . |
19 | If Mr Bush vetoes the measure , he risks losing abortion-rights voters who supported him for other reasons , and if he changes his firm anti-abortion stance he runs the potentially greater risk of losing his hard-core right-wing support . |
20 | But he blamed Graveney for the furore : ‘ It was not the ICC who put him in this position but Tom himself . |
21 | As she did one of the English players danced across the screen and up the sideline , outwitting several of the Moroccan side who tackled him from all directions . |
22 | There were many shrewd operators who backed him for last season 's Grand National and they will be doing so again . |
23 | Among the men who backed him in 1471 Pilkington was steward of Rochdale and James Harrington steward of Amounderness ( Lancs . ) . |
24 | Among the men who backed him in 1471 Pilkington was steward of Rochdale and James Harrington steward of Amounderness ( Lancs . ) . |
25 | With hindsight it is tempting to ask if her outrage was directed at the Prince or the woman who held him in such thrall , Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
26 | BOXER Mike Tyson 's bid to get a new trial was thrown out of court yesterday — by the judge who sentenced him to six years for rape . |