Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 2 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 3 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 4 | His report on the German military brought him to the attention of General George Marshal , on whose staff he later served . |
| 5 | English economics provided him with the two antinomies he needed , proletariat and bourgeoisie , as the polarised , opposites of the dialectic . |
| 6 | After all , if the British government knifed him in the back when he was pursuing their patriotic interest , what was the point of going on ? |
| 7 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 8 | So much of his daily duty took him to the general neighbourhood of these places it was n't easy , but mercifully no bumping into the angry Charity occurred . |
| 9 | Seeing that Teclis could not be dissuaded , the High Loremaster gifted him with the War Crown of Saphery and let him go . |
| 10 | Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia refused the German Crown offered him by the Frankfurt Assembly because it was offered by ‘ Liberals and Jews ’ and because he felt his cousin in Vienna had a better claim . |
| 11 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 12 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 13 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 14 | A few easy moves brought him to the sanctuary of the belay ledge . |
| 15 | His incredible determination and immodest personality kept him at the top of his profession . |
| 16 | Warm slobber hit him in the face . |
| 17 | Young 's lifetime passion for the large molluscs led him from the squid to the octopus . |
| 18 | National Service sent him into the Army , as he has described in Not all a Ball , and it was then , whilst on leave , that Minton 's ‘ irresistible , magical aura of ebullience and joie de vivre ’ offered such a liberating contrast with the high-pitched orders of NCOs and the brutalising routine of Army life . |
| 19 | Samuel Irving — ‘ Si ’ — Newhouse jr , second-generation New York billionaire , had long been known as a collector of modern American art , but his November 1988 purchase of Jasper John 's False Start propelled him into the public consciousness . |
| 20 | The sudden movement brought him into the path of a mourner , whose elbow struck him a glancing blow and sent him reeling . |
| 21 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 22 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 23 | By 1905 he had moved to St Petersburg where his growing reputation as a miraculous healer brought him to the attention of the Czar and Czarina . |
| 24 | The friendly policeman looked him in the eye . |
| 25 | Lewis became champion when unified title-holder Riddick Bowe unceremoniously dumped his WBC belt in a bin , and the angry Mexico City-based organisation stripped him of the title . |
| 26 | Just on half-time , a long ball from Milne put him through within excellent shooting distance of Thomson , but McCart 's late intervention robbed him of the golden chance to break the deadlock . |
| 27 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 28 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 29 | Malik 's brilliant form took him to the top of the table for the tour with a total of 1,184 runs . |
| 30 | A steady rise up the legal ladder took him into the commercial law field and a range of broader experience as a member of both the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( 1966 to 1969 ) and a legal member of the mental health tribunal for 22 years until 1982 . |