Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to .
2 Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption .
3 GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast .
4 Britten invests him with a memorable sententiousness of utterance , something one might call proverbial if such a word could apply to melodic line .
5 When Arkesilas IV had succeeded Battos IV is unknown , but Pindar addresses him as a young man in 462 .
6 The kid steps in and Ali stabs him with a well-timed jab that 's as sweet as a bite from the last tangy apple of autumn .
7 Cain kills Abel — it is a short step from rebellion to bloodshed — and God condemns him to a nomadic life , but provides protection against death .
8 Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as
9 But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress .
10 Mancarelli tells him about the broken window .
11 Great Britain skipper Garry Schofield is still out with a hamstring injury and Kiwi Mercer joins him with a damaged ankle .
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