Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] him [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DeVore watched him place the sealed slide back into the padded , shocksafe case and draw another out . |
| 2 | Coghill allowed him to understudy the leading part , ‘ the complicated sex-driven Puritan ’ , Angelo . |
| 3 | Her dark head on one of the velvet cushions , Luce watched him move the huge bowl of flowers to a side-table , before producing some kindling and logs from a metal-bound oak chest . |
| 4 | Huy watched him cross the little square in front of his house and disappear around the corner on the way back to the palace compound . |
| 5 | George Bush chose him to run the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) at a time when he still thought he could co-opt and not alienate the green lobby . |
| 6 | Bush persuaded him to resign the top foreign policy post and become White House chief of staff , in charge of the campaign . |
| 7 | After he 'd missed yet another holeable putt , Patrick saw him lay the steel-shafted putter across his knee as if to break or spank it . |
| 8 | There was a sharp metallic click and as Dan stood up , Patrick saw him slip the heavy pistol back into his pocket . |
| 9 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 10 | Wolfgang intended to write an opera for Paris , but Leopold warned him to study the national taste first , since his reputation would hang on his first piece . |
| 11 | For Aleksandras Macijauskas , photography began as a profession when Sutkus persuaded him to join the Lithuanian Photographic Society based in the capital Vilnius . |