Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 This remedy had certainly done him no harm , for he was a sprightly eighty-year old .
2 For answer , the Robemaker lifted his arms out so that the great black cloak fanned out giving him the outline of a massive bat or a creature of prey .
3 Ah , , he has complained now to the Vatican that he , any more , because of , Swiss the community does n't give him the
4 His name has already made him the butt of many jokes .
5 If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future .
6 If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence .
7 If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence .
8 But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used .
9 Batty certainly ca n't be excused on the grounds the manager did n't give him a ‘ fair crack of the whip ’ can he ?
10 When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) .
11 This subject does n't give him a chance to do so .
12 But his hyperactive personality has also made him an easy subject for parody .
13 His aspect was cheerful and his speech and motion did both declare him a gentleman . ’
14 In 1915 , Grand Admiral von Tirpitz confided to his diary : ‘ The Kaiser does not give him a chance . ’
15 Mine had the same amount , while Thessy 's only contained a hundred , though the proctologist had also given him the ‘ Go Dawgs ’ hat .
16 A TOT drowned in a garden pond as his mum nipped out to buy him an ice cream from a van .
17 The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time .
18 His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment .
19 He asked me what I was going to wear and said his mam had just bought him a new duffle coat and did I like it , ’ she says .
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