Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when the high priest asked him the direct question : |
| 2 | Down 's handsome appearance , high principles , and genial manner won him a powerful influence over his patients and the real affection of his colleagues . |
| 3 | Quite different from her brother , who was slim where she was rotund , and whose dark hair lent him a certain swarthy , though boyish , kind of good looks . |
| 4 | Only Father Kolbe remained alive until a bored guard gave him a fatal injection of carbolic acid . |
| 5 | His role as chief mourner gave him a certain glamour . |
| 6 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 7 | Riven caught Bicker 's eye as he had that afternoon , and the dark man threw him a rueful grin . |
| 8 | He told Johnson that Warburton ( the combative English divine and man of letters , whose generally controversial national presence made him a common topic of Johnsonian conversation ) had a close relationship with an unnamed ‘ eminent printer ’ . |
| 9 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 10 | He wore riding-gear and a bowler , a stick tucked underneath his arm , and his air of unhurried authority gave him a matchless glamour . |
| 11 | When Mr Kinnock succeeded Michael Foot in 1983 , the early support of the ASTMS white-collar union gave him a crucial head-start . |
| 12 | His confidence that God 's existence could be demonstrated from the natural world made him a favourite target for those who felt it could only be on the basis of God 's special revelation of Himself that faith could be justified . |
| 13 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 14 | He looked up , and the flickering torchlight showed him a vaulted cavern-roof innocent of tooling by men . |
| 15 | His extrovert personality made him the ideal host at the company 's restaurants . |
| 16 | He was knighted in 1945 and in 1953 the American Meteorological Association elected him an honorary member . |
| 17 | But here Balboa 's persuasive charm did him no good : a Chief Torecha , leader of a tribe of mountain Caribs , set about defending his lands , and there was a brief and bloody battle which the Spaniards ( hardly surprisingly ) won . |
| 18 | His intuition , subtle approach , analytical capacities and broad clinical knowledge made him a brilliant clinician ’ . |
| 19 | If Philiphaugh was a mark in Craigbarnet 's favour with the Montrose interest , and his ancestor 's service with the Great Marquis deserved reward , his own participation in the 1715 Rising and his continuing Jacobitism made him an undesirable ally for a Whig politician like Montrose . |
| 20 | Archie usually performed as a combative left-half for the Palace , but he was also occasionally drafted into the front line , to play as a makeshift centre-forward to most useful effect , because his considerable height gave him a distinct advantage in that department and he scored on his first two outings for us in the number nine shirt . |
| 21 | Doctors at Leeds General Infirmary gave him a one-in-ten chance of living . |
| 22 | MAURICE Core 's battering-ram right hand won him the vacant British light-heavyweight title at Manchester 's New Century Hall last night . |
| 23 | The apparently unbridgeable gulf between him and his contemporaries in terms of sheer footballing skill made him an exceptional and enormously wealthy black man , after a childhood spent amidst the poverty and squalor of Bauru ( see Pelé and Fish , 1977 ) . |
| 24 | Lastly an open door showed him a high square room , almost certainly set under the campanile , which was obviously both the vestry proper and the bell room . |
| 25 | The strength of the individual features set in a long thin face gave him a striking and attractive appearance . |
| 26 | From 1743 until his death , Davies was the undisputed leader of the Pembrokeshire Methodists : his power as a preacher ( a power not discernible in his only printed sermon , Llais y Priodfab , 1768 ) , his standing as an ordained clergyman , and his financial independence gave him a rare combination of spiritual and social advantages . |
| 27 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |
| 28 | His keen instinct gave him a deep understanding of his environment and his innate intelligence led him to devise ways of altering it to his advantage . |
| 29 | Seth 's new career earned him a fifty-thousand dollar advance for the paperback edition , and a European version was in the works . |
| 30 | The young Floridian gave him a worried smile . |