Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Britten had written the part for him as the eldest son , Jaffet , which was a treble , ’ said Graham . |
| 2 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 3 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 5 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 6 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 7 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 8 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 9 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 10 | His two first-half saves from Neil Murray and David Robertson were of the highest quality , but even Geddes required some assistance from the woodwork when Duncan Ferguson hammered a low left footer past him in the 50th minute . |
| 11 | She had been so pleased when Dr. Briant had suggested she lunch with him in the medical staff dining room , aching as she was to get away for a while at least from the uncomfortable atmosphere of the Maternity Ward . |
| 12 | I look forward to doing battle with him in the coming weeks and months . |
| 13 | He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice . |
| 14 | Corbett regained his strength and scrambled to his feet , dragging the dwarf in his grasp with him as the latter 's accomplice slumped wordlessly to his knees . |
| 15 | That was why Aunt Alicia took pity on him in the first place , Jenny had said , because he had nowhere to put his horses . |
| 16 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 17 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 18 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 19 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 20 | The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme . |
| 21 | Cardiff saw Rohmer , Duvall and Gilbert recoil towards him as the hideous black-glistening thing thrashed amidst the collapsing detritus of its entry . |
| 22 | Claudia sank down on to her bed and tried to shut her ears to the sound of him in the next room . |
| 23 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 24 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 25 | On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances . |
| 26 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 27 | He sent for his wife and their three children , who took up residence with him in the old palace . |
| 28 | As she was saying good-bye to him on the last day , she knew that they would n't see each other again for a long time . |
| 29 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 30 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |