Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 2 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 3 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 4 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 5 | Grimma followed him across the chilly floor as more nomes filed into the shed and huddled apprehensively along the walls . |
| 6 | Jane met him at the front door . |
| 7 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 8 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 9 | Lily saw him to the front door . |
| 10 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 11 | Sarah followed him up the narrow stairs with her bag , her eyes on his thin , dirty bare legs and ragged trousers . |
| 12 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 13 | Harry received him in the large parlour , against whose windows a summer gale was hurling heavy drops of rain . |
| 14 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 15 | Miller dropped him at the main administration then drove on to the vehicle pool and , he said , some food and shut-eye . |
| 16 | Regular correspondence with the revered minimalist La Monte Young introduced him to the Dadaist movement Fluxus , but by the time he had won a Leonard Bernstein scholarship to the Berkshire School of Music in Massachusetts , ‘ I felt I 'd run my course as far as the avant-garde was concerned ’ . |
| 17 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 18 | Jos led him across the dark yard to a set of double doors , near the old Lagonda . |
| 19 | As , her spine ramrod-straight , Luce accompanied him from the lived-in part of the palazzo , past grand salons and vaulted galleries , down to the basement regions thoughts wheeled and settled in her mind like swallows on a telegraph wire . |
| 20 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 21 | Former Darlington defender Jim Willis put in a saving tackle on Steve Mardenborough when Nick Cusack found him in the clear , while Willis was caught in possession by Cusack inside his own box but the centre forward 's shot was blocked . |
| 22 | Fraulein Winkelmann told him for the Good God 's sake to get the papers fast , and Bruno went away and came back and pointed the Luger yet again . |
| 23 | Fox arrived with an assistant and Wycliffe took him to the vandalized room . |
| 24 | After he had been withdrawn or expelled from St John 's College , Grace sent him to the local government school , Highlands North . |
| 25 | Ahmad Soungui , hitherto Foreign Minister , became Minister of Information and Culture , and the former Minister of Information , Culture and Tourism , Mahamat Saleh Ahmat replaced him at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 26 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 27 | Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming . |
| 28 | Wexford followed him through the pleached walk and they entered the house by a glazed garden door . |
| 29 | Dougal followed him into the little garden . |
| 30 | In 1986 deep-sea researcher Jacques Cousteau selected him as the still photographer for the research ship Calypso |