Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 2 | However , it will take several hundred pounds in vet bills to restore him to good health . |
| 3 | Lowther was active as a barrister and , according to his autobiography , the circuit judges nominated him in 1616 as a JP for Westmorland ; he joined his father on a bench which welcomed his legal knowledge . |
| 4 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 5 | A 49 after a safety exchange took him to 4–4 , but Hendry reeled off three successive breaks of the highest quality to put daylight between them . |
| 6 | Bernhart Silberysen was the mayor in charge of the restoration , and the town council presented him with this bowl in thanks . |
| 7 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 8 | In the evening Chola woke him with some water to drink : he winced and then groaned as the pain shot out from his thigh and radiated through his body . |
| 9 | Tuesday 's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen . |
| 10 | The night sweats frightened him at first . |
| 11 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 12 | A Teesside Crown Court jury cleared him of both charges but convicted him of arson last month . |
| 13 | But a court order bans him from any contact with the baby . |
| 14 | And Mr Corker has received letters from the tourism office advising him of financial help available for expansion plans . |
| 15 | He wrote to his insurance company claiming that his personal liability policy covered him against any possible damages . |
| 16 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 17 | In March 1988 the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to 18 years ' imprisonment , upheld in May 1989 by the Supreme Court . |
| 18 | The next morning Dad woke him at eight . |
| 19 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |
| 20 | From 1899 to 1902 he encouraged young Labour church workers to visit him for informal religious training . |
| 21 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 22 | Unix pioneer Larry Michels , president , chairman , chief executive and co-founder of The Santa Cruz Operation Inc , has resigned in the wake of a civil suit filed by three former executive secretaries charging him with sexual harassment ( UX No 415 , 416 ) . |
| 23 | Gandhi dissociated himself from this development and withdrew from politics until 1939 , when the outbreak of the Second World War stirred him to political action again . |
| 24 | His cultural detective work leads him through aesthetic , anthropological and medical discourses about ‘ race ’ and sexuality , specifically as they were articulated around the figures of the female Hottentot and the prostitute in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | Livingston , who has vowed to clear his name after British athletics chiefs banned him for four years for drugs cheating , said : ‘ I am being imprisoned for something I have n't done . |
| 26 | Beyond , the muttering of a TV set led him to another door . |
| 27 | Though living with his father in Dearborn , near Detroit , Kalid visited his mother and grandfather in the Bekaa Valley several times a year , a family duty providing him with perfect cover for the job of courier in the DEA 's stepped-up programme of controlled heroin deliveries . |
| 28 | In 1988 , when a Conservative backbencher , Robert Adley , tried to get diplomatic relations restored , Foreign Office ministers briefed him on British preconditions . |