Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [vb past] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 2 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 3 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 4 | Charles I was equally well disposed towards Salisbury and made him a privy councillor in 1626 . |
| 5 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 6 | Such suspicions were reinforced when he made this pampered favourite Duke of Lennox and granted him the revenues of Arbroath abbey . |
| 7 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 8 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 9 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 10 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 11 | Christina noticed that he looked grey with tiredness and handed him a plan he had missed . |
| 12 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 13 | Nick , who had feared a torridly emotional hour or so was relieved by this ; grateful , he had shared half a bottle of brandy with Martin and told him a great deal about the behaviour of adolescents in certain African tribes , a safe subject , and one he was apt to enlarge on when drunk . |
| 14 | He complained once about Kavanagh 's poems being read on Irish radio in a vulgar Monaghan accent ; he saw his brother as a poetic giant among Dublin 's envious literary pygmies who filled the helpless bard with whiskey and made him the instrument of their Communist-homosexual conspiracies . |
| 15 | ‘ I met Drew in Panama and liked him a lot . |
| 16 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 17 | Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency . |
| 18 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 19 | Mr Chandler is best known for his book ‘ The Visible Hand ’ , published in 1977 , which chronicled the rise of managerial capitalism in America and won him a Pulitzer prize . |
| 20 | so I , I went back in house and fetched him a little bowl back with me taters in , peeling taters , |
| 21 | But they hold it is witchcraft which singled out this particular victim for attack and made him the target of the animal 's assault . |
| 22 | I sprang to attention and gave him a smart salute . |
| 23 | Some time later Mehmed II repented of his action , invited Molla Husrev back to Istanbul and gave him the office of Mufti . |
| 24 | She went over to Shelley and gave him a book , telling him that Claire Claremont was sitting by little William — ‘ Willmouse ’ , she called him — and writing letters home . |
| 25 | Agrippa , like a little spider in his black garments , came up beside Benjamin and handed him a small sheaf of documents and two fat purses . |
| 26 | Buddie had been very angry , but everyone else had laughed at Frankie and called him a snivelling cissy . |
| 27 | He looked back at Kim and gave him a small bow . |
| 28 | The drummer lashed out at Tom and caught him a glancing blow on the jaw and Tom had to be held back by Ollie to prevent him retaliating . |