Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The college failed to elect him to the Bye-Fellowship . |
| 2 | His crime has brought him to the extremity which Marmeladov was telling him about and tasting at the bottom of his own vodka jug in the opening pages of the novel . |
| 3 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 4 | Grant felt a hammer blow strike him on the right breast and a searing pain in his right bicep . |
| 5 | If our dear departed were not going to speak out against the Berlin talks as seemed altogether likely suppose — I must say suppose — that some deranged mind decided to eliminate him under the guise of a Muscovite attempt on the dear Praident ? |
| 6 | Stephen Thomas says the ordeal has driven him to the brink of suicide . |
| 7 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 8 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 9 | His earlier work had convinced him of the importance of the home market in maintaining effective demand , so a new policy which emphasized its expansion was called for . |
| 10 | On Aug. 11 the Supreme Soviet in emergency session had deprived him of the additional powers granted on April 30 [ see p. 38916 ] , and , in a resolution passed on Aug. 14 on extricating the country from crisis , censured him for " indecisive and at times incompetent policy " and demanded that he and the government take all measures to implement the July peace agreement [ for which see p. 39010 ] . |
| 11 | I believed the senator was a thoughtful man whose wealth had elevated him above the need to make compromises with his convictions . |
| 12 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 13 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 14 | His talent for imaginative lying helped to elect him to the Senate after the war as ‘ Tail Gunner Joe ’ . |
| 15 | ERIC Butler , a charity worker , fought back with his swordstick when a mugger tried to strangle him on the London Underground in 1987 . |
| 16 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 17 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 18 | The tentacle started to pull him across the floor . |
| 19 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 20 | He was equally active as admiral , and in the previous year admiralty business had taken him along the south coast , where his presence was noted at Southampton and Lydd . |
| 21 | At times he would claim that his father had been lashed in front of the town and put in the stocks for poaching a salmon , and told to pray for the soul of Lord I — whose goodness had saved him from the hanging he deserved . |
| 22 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 23 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 24 | Frankie had been told to dress in a hurry , and Sweetheart had taken him to the park near the old railway bridge in Horton Park Avenue . |
| 25 | A new manager and a new accountant had alerted him to the alarming fact that , notwithstanding his private plane , home recording studio and sports cars , he was short of money . |
| 26 | At various points in his career , he played wonderful jazz , but by the time these four pieces — OM , Kulu Se Mama , Selflessness , and Ascension — were made in 1965 his relentless search for The Truth had brought him to the most uncompromising of unstructured freedom . |
| 27 | He looked behind confirming that his body had joined him from the ground . |
| 28 | ‘ How the hell did they get to England ? ’ the Exec Director had asked him on the phone . |
| 29 | Now the Supreme Court has put him on the spot . |
| 30 | The international winger Sergeant George Wall of the 11th Black Watch and Manchester United offered to play for City but the taxi sent to collect him from the station waited in vain . |