Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bernhart Silberysen was the mayor in charge of the restoration , and the town council presented him with this bowl in thanks . |
| 4 | Tuesday 's mortar bomb blast left him with three chunks of shrapnel in his abdomen . |
| 5 | The old ruined oak tree beckoned him like some great finger thrust up from the green grass . |
| 6 | A Teesside Crown Court jury cleared him of both charges but convicted him of arson last month . |
| 7 | But a court order bans him from any contact with the baby . |
| 8 | And Mr Corker has received letters from the tourism office advising him of financial help available for expansion plans . |
| 9 | He wrote to his insurance company claiming that his personal liability policy covered him against any possible damages . |
| 10 | This brief experience as a merchant seaman qualified him for another voyage , this time on an American cargo vessel bound for London . |
| 11 | In March 1988 the Jerusalem District Court sentenced him to 18 years ' imprisonment , upheld in May 1989 by the Supreme Court . |
| 12 | The next morning Dad woke him at eight . |
| 13 | As Harry Cohn , head of Columbia , said shortly before a heart attack killed him in 1958 : ‘ The lunatics have taken over the asylum . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Beyond , the muttering of a TV set led him to another door . |
| 17 | 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 . |