Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] him [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prime Minister announced on Nov. 26 that some months earlier the Queen had asked him to consider the basis on which she might voluntarily pay tax on her personal income and also take responsibility for certain payments to additional members of the royal family ; the Prince of Wales had made a similar request with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall . |
| 2 | ‘ Patrick McGoohan , who wrote the series , was looking for a car to use and Lotus tried to persuade him to use the Elan , ’ says Graham Nearn , managing director of Caterham Cars , which still makes the Seven today . |
| 3 | The Colonel had trusted him to rid the Chairman of the darts of the writer with the poisoned pen . |
| 4 | Allen said Soon-Yi had asked him to take the nude photos . |
| 5 | Briskly , Coffin told him of Christopher Court 's story and how the MP 's tale had led him to investigate the death of Malcolm Kincaid . |
| 6 | Involuntarily the landlord of the Feathers shivered , peering uncertainly up at this late wayfarer , whose peremptory summons on the front door had recalled him to undo the bolts he had only just shot to . |
| 7 | He pointed out that the American Physical Society had invited him to give the talk , that he had completed a three — year research programme , having done all the necessary cross checks and controls , and had definitive results to present . |
| 8 | Mr Wright said there were three positive callers , praising Sure Style 's work but one admitted Sure Style had asked him to call the phone-in . |
| 9 | This was the second attempt to install the liberal Komissarov in the post : in January Moscow city soviet had nominated him to replace the hardliner Pyotr Bogdanov , but the USSR Interior Ministry had rejected the nomination on the grounds that it had not been consulted , and had ordered Bogdanov to remain in the post . |
| 10 | His uncle had taken him to see the Walt Disney film when he was a child . |
| 11 | Ultimately the scrupulous , strait-laced upbringing had left him distrusting the strictures of rigid minds . |
| 12 | I hope this helps you to see that it does not matter at all whether that regression to his past life was factual or whether Barry 's subconscious had caused him to invent the whole thing in his imagination . |
| 13 | A month later a high-ranking army officer had heard him deliver the following verdict on integration : " They are not Provenals or Languedocians . |
| 14 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 15 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |
| 16 | But surely only his perfect oblivious innocence of all evil including pain had enabled him to survive the journey down . |
| 17 | Becker 's photograph was in the German newspapers yesterday , accompanied by lamentations about his physical condition after a knee injury had caused him to abandon the Classic on Thursday . |
| 18 | Patrick heard the roar and the storm of applause and guessed that his curiosity had made him miss the shot not only of the tournament but probably of the golfing year . |
| 19 | The day before , his Mother had asked him to change the wireless accumulator because the reception was beginning to fade . |