Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
2 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
3 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
4 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
5 | With cords and pitons they anchored him to the rock . |
6 | It was the Lucy Ghosts who supplied him with the cash that helped him build his empire . ’ |
7 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
8 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
9 | He is blessed , though , with large hands which assisted him with the amount of spin he could impart on a cricket ball . |
10 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
11 | I grew up among the kind of communists and socialists who guided him into the working-class communities and who staff some of their struggles . |
12 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
13 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
14 | While he was exploring the river he was attacked by a group of Indian women warriors who reminded him of the Amazons ( female warriors who appear in ancient Greek myths ) . |
15 | One of the Tory MPs who supported him for the leadership of the party in 1990 told me that Michael Heseltine no longer had a political future . |
16 | Firemen who pulled him from the inferno looked on anxiously as off-duty technician James McDonald tried to revive him . |