Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insistence as a public examiner that men who aspired to become Bachelors or Doctors of Divinity should show knowledge of the Scriptures rather than of the commentators made him unpopular with the Friars . |
| 2 | ‘ I have been trying to get him out of the pram to get him ready for nursery but not now . |
| 3 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 4 | Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture . |
| 5 | " One of the neighbours found him this morning — luckily someone loyal to the cause . |
| 6 | Some of the men gave him curious looks because of the blood that had sheeted his right side . |
| 7 | The girl behind the counter gave him eight £1 coins . |
| 8 | Bernard could not fail to have been impressed by such spontaneous enthusiasm ; equally , Peter felt Bernard was ‘ obviously a man of excitement heading a most intriguing company , I could see that he needed someone to deal with the administration leaving him free to run his company . ’ |
| 9 | James ' experience with the P.N.M. left him convinced that the middle class in the Caribbean was an impediment to the building of a new society . |
| 10 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 11 | Now the underground man would have extinguished his consciousness if he could , but since the fable of life under the floorboards renders him bodiless and one ca n't kill consciousness without laying hands on one 's body , the matter does n't arise . |
| 12 | The warm air from the stove made him sleepy , and he forgot to open one of the air-holes before going to sleep . |
| 13 | And , apart from the project gaining him top grade in his A-levels , it also won two national science awards . |
| 14 | Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived . |
| 15 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 16 | Jonty Rhodes , whose fierce commitment and exuberance in the field made him one of the ‘ stars ’ of the World Cup . |
| 17 | His head was swimming and he began to drift into a drunken doze but the sense of a new presence in the stall made him open his eyes again . |
| 18 | His long interest in the Philippines made him pivotal in preparing American opinion for the abandonment of Ferdinand Marcos ( President Corazon Aquino later hailed him as ‘ the Lafayette of the Philippine revolution ’ ) . |
| 19 | At least , he lectured in such a way that many in the audience found him impossible to understand . |
| 20 | Since his dismissal , Totten has been working as a radio journalist but yesterday admitted that only active participation in the game brought him genuine satisfaction . |
| 21 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 22 | Nothing in the world caused him such dismay , such instant feelings of antagonism , as catching sight of any institution whatsoever … |
| 23 | The teasing in the dormitory made him sick with anger . |
| 24 | O , the Fox went out on a chilly night and he prayed to the moon to give him light … |
| 25 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 26 | Every afternoon , after leaving the bank , I went to the hospital to teach him Italian . |
| 27 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 28 | He did not have time to study any more , and the long hours of work on the farm made him tired and dull . |
| 29 | For a second Connelly thought he was going to pass out , but a hard smack across the face kept him conscious . |
| 30 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |