Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Frank Packman tries his running skills at full-back in place of Hunter with Ben Ward succeeding him on the right .
2 But if you do n't want to hear it … ’ he made as if to go but Herr Nordern took him by the elbow .
3 Patrick Devlin regarded him as the most effective speaker of his time :
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 David Beaton clapped him on the shoulder .
7 Lucy Lane told him about the journal .
8 In 1979 Serjeant 's former employer Richard Sheppard recommended him for the post of Surveyor to the Royal Academy .
9 A RECENT photograph of Kingsley Amis shows him with a cat , which is standing beside his typewriter .
10 And after Cardinal Red carried him to a two and a half length win over Gaelstrom in the Belle Epoque Sefton Novices Hurdle , de Haan said : ‘ That has set me up perfectly for the National .
11 HEROL Graham 's reign as British middleweight champion ended last night as Bradford 's Frank Grant blasted him to a ninth-round defeat at Elland Road , Leeds .
12 When Dr Henry approached him , Dr Williams hit him on the side of the head and sent his glasses flying .
13 Dr Tariq told him of the death of Professor Khan , of the defection of the two French engineers , and of the Italian laboratory engineers , of a letter bomb that had been received , correctly addressed , to the same complex , to the very building alongside the one in which he now sat .
14 Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said .
15 His dark night of the soul came in the Chinama Motel in faraway Lusaka , after his escape from South Africa , as he lay listening to the foreign service of Radio South Africa describing him as a liar , a crook and a psychopath .
16 Five neighbours of Darlington man Ray Hubbard alerted him to an article in the newspaper appealing for him to contact the pal he last saw in 1953 .
17 Fenella Fielding saw him in the play there .
18 Sergeant Bird followed him into the parkland at a leisurely pace , then watched from behind a tree as the fugitive made three attempts at the lowest portion of the wall .
19 Dr Clarke shows him as an insider addressing officials and economists of many shades of opinion , including some whose position was close to his own .
20 The man they called The Fat One — Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering — was enjoying himself when Karlheinz Pintsch rang him with the news .
21 All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet .
22 Why did n't W B Yeats immortalise him in a poem ?
23 Sister Cooney took him by the arm and he went with her , unresisting .
24 After the Labour victory of 1929 , Ramsay MacDonald considered him for the post of Foreign Secretary .
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 Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time .
27 Despite some misgivings , he persuaded Tom Gray to accompany him on a wander to a nearby burial ground , Lying on top of a heap of bones , ‘ almost asking to be taken , was a femur .
28 When Mr Heath sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet in 1968 after he had paraphrased Virgil 's Aeneid and with foreboding claimed to see ‘ the River Tiber foaming with much blood ’ he began a journey into the wilderness .
29 Officers had tried all day to contact Mr Maughan to tell him of the tragedy .
30 Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself .
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