Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 2 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 3 | Miss Merchiston flashed him a scornful glance . |
| 4 | He filled this post and served his fellow deaf with such distinction that Archbishop Ramsay appointed him an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1966 . |
| 5 | Mr Brownlow bought him a new suit and new shoes , and Oliver 's dirty old clothes were given away . |
| 6 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 7 | President Sékou-Touré gave him a warm welcome . |
| 8 | The Williams team gave him a quick change of tyres … but not quick enough to prevent Patrase and Senna fly past into the lead . |
| 9 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 10 | When he reached the front , Mr Saleb handed him a huge ledger over the top of the grille . |
| 11 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 12 | On his birthday Auntie Lou gave him a pair of leather gloves with fur linings and Mr Evans gave him a Holy Bible with a soft , red cover and pictures inside . |
| 13 | Brother Cadfael brought him a warming drink , and a draught to settle his stomach , and they left him to sleep it off . |
| 14 | Willie Noolan gave him a distant wave ; Ted Morgan did an almost military about-turn when he spotted him and disappeared through the door ; even Jacko Roberts seemed to consider his offer of a drink with more sardonic suspicion than usual . |
| 15 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 16 | Sharon claimed that he been humiliated diplomatically on May 2 when the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp refused him an official meeting . |
| 17 | First a mix-up in the West Ham defence gave him a clear sight of goal , but Ludek Miklosko threw himself at Smillie 's feet to save . |
| 18 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 19 | In 1986 Forbes magazine named him the richest man in America . |
| 20 | TEST audiences hated the ending to comic Eddie Murphy 's latest movie , so Disney Pictures paid him an extra £500,000 to shoot another . |
| 21 | ‘ Because the prosecution would notice that hiding Barbara Coleman made him a prime suspect for the murder of her friend . |
| 22 | Desmond Fairchild gave him a sympathetic wink . |
| 23 | Frau Nordern gave him a disbelieving stare . |
| 24 | Frau Nordern gave him a calculating look then nodded . |
| 25 | Mr Recorder Shaun Spencer gave him a nine months suspended prison sentence . |
| 26 | Further , it is always open to a court , on proof of new facts , to make an order supplemental to an original order : see Ford-Hunt v. Raghbir Singh [ 1973 ] 1 W.L.R. 738 , 740 , per Brightman J. The affidavit evidence before Saville J. gave him an incomplete picture of the actual situation in Somalia and the current attitude of Her Majesty 's Government ; there is now additional relevant evidence before the court . |
| 27 | First , we should understand that the political hacks were peeved when he won the overwhelming support of his colleagues to represent them on Labour 's shadow cabinet and they were really gutted when John Smith gave him the Scottish Office to shadow . |