Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Honest enquirers , like the lawyer who asked him about the greatest commandment , were impressed and attracted by his Bible-based teaching ( though , as with the rich young ruler , they did not all respond to it positively ) . |
2 | But Durie still feels uncomfortable at the club who backed him to the hilt in wiping out the damaging ‘ cheat ’ slur . |
3 | As he walked down the stairs it was the old lady who met him in the hall . |
4 | Then , with a girl who loved him on the seat of his bike , he came to a bridge he was never to cross . |
5 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
6 | Nevertheless , the Australian is still likely to preside over the punishment of the opponent who beat him in the World Open final . |
7 | Edgar , on the other hand , has his father 's nature who saves him in the disguise of ‘ poor Tom ’ . |
8 | McKenzie initially felt unwelcomed in the unfamiliar surroundings until he saw an old Melbourne friend who introduced him to the irrepressible club coach , Jeff Sayle . |
9 | The appellant failed to comply with the rules of the hostel , on one occasion leaving without permission , and was brought before the magistrates ' court who returned him to the hostel . |
10 | Justus Lipsius was the classical scholar who introduced him into the military sphere . |
11 | ( d ) The supplier must have failed within a reasonable time of the request , to comply with it or to identify the person who supplied him with the product ( s. 2(3) ( c ) ) . |
12 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
13 | ‘ When he talks to you he makes you feel as if you are the only person in the entire world , ’ said one woman who met him on the campaign trail . |
14 | In the small mezzanine ‘ A ’ -Control Room stood the producer , his eye on the second-hand of the wall-clock and his right hand raised to signal the start to the conductor who watched him from the studio . |
15 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
16 | Meanwhile Ben had gone off to move another lighter and was then intercepted by the Manager who directed him to the dock some way off . |
17 | She remembers the time he was coming out of his flat in the midst of a rainstorm and was approached by a young man who asked him for the price of a meal . |
18 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
19 | However , if Europeans were exasperated with Carter , many had little liking either for the man who beat him in the November presidential elections . |
20 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
21 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
22 | He was saved by another servant who recognised him from the banquet . |
23 | And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland . |