Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 2 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 3 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 4 | Although a managing director will usually be an employee the courts sensibly view him in a different light from that of a manual worker . |
| 5 | I used to watch him sleep , wondering what bloody crimes lay in his past , and knowing that I alone protected him from a horrible death . |
| 6 | And Burrows senselessly followed him after a late challenge on Khlestov . |
| 7 | If that power was sufficient , the holy spirit , if that power was sufficient to raise Christ from the dead , you not think he 's able to exert that power in your life and in my life to make us live lives that are pleasing to God , of course it is so we do n't do it ourselves , just let me in closing mention one other thing , this relationship we have needs to be maintained , you know for any relationship to grow , one needs to spend time with the other person , I do n't give a lot of credence to the saying that absence makes the heart grow fonder , it does with somebody else , it 's true , it does not make it grow fonder of that person the person is you know who you , you heard this story so often , like particularly like going back during the last war , folk who were separated sometimes for , for , not just for months but for several years , there they were in concentration camps perhaps , in prisoner of war camps , separated for years , they come back home they 've got to get to know each other all over again you see that a relationship on a human level as well as in our relationship with God is dependent on , on association , it 's dependent on companionship , it 's dependent on spending time with the other person and in our relationship with Christ this is achieved by , by prayer , by knowing and understanding God 's word , by having fellowship with other Christians and fellowship with other Christians is not just meeting them and passing the time of day with them , oh that 's fellowship but it 's far more than that is required , there 's the fellowship in worship , we worship together , of course I can worship God at home of course I can do it , so can you do it and we , we should do it , but there 's that re , there 's that need , that requirement as God 's people we come together to worship him in a corporate act , in the sacraments , in , as we mentioned in , in earlier on in taking the bread and the wine and remembering the lords death , there 's a sense in which I can do it by myself |
| 8 | To the distress of his family he rejected the Unitarian name in later life but not the ministerial title , though others , as he admits , ‘ only saw him as a Unitarian minister ’ . |
| 9 | Always doing a number about his screen image , about how audiences would not accept him as a thief , how audiences would only accept him as a fallen sinner — someone they could love . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , after his defeat , Mr Major , whose strengths as a Prime Minister would not best qualify him as a good leader of the opposition , would do the decent thing and step down , like Sir Alec Douglas-Home in 1965 , agreeing to serve under whomever the party chose to succeed him . |
| 11 | Her betrothed leapt back to his feet , his hand going to the knife at his belt , but Cranston just dismissed him with a contemptuous flicker of his eyes . |
| 12 | I think you just caught him at a bad moment . |
| 13 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 14 | I ca n't somehow see him in a red riding coat being winched aboard a dappled stallion . |
| 15 | His forcefulness , intelligence and personality soon established him as a national leader . |
| 16 | He can console himself with a winter passage booked to Australia , and the knowledge that his talent and determined character have finally set him on a rightful path to the pinnacle of the game . |
| 17 | And Richie was no longer treating him like a lame duck . |
| 18 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 19 | She is pursued by Mr Lillyvick , whom she marries , but soon deserts him for a retired naval captain . |
| 20 | She could quite easily imagine him in a black cloak or a doge 's zoia . |
| 21 | The Shah had visited Washington in November 1977 , towards the end of Carters election , and the new administration had impressed upon him that although the United States still regarded him as an important ally , the days of unrestricted arms sales , while arrest and torture by SAVAK were ignored by the US , were over , In fact , the Shah had already moderated SAVAK , released some political prisoners and allowed a little more criticism of his government to be expressed , even before Carter 's inauguration . |
| 22 | His first book , Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the Puritan Revolution ( 1967 ) , quickly established him as an important contributor to seventeenth-century studies , and put him in the forefront of the group of scholars who were beginning the process of reinterpreting the English Revolution of the 1640s at the grass roots . |
| 23 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 24 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 25 | It was important that they should all be seen to be doing this in a town as a matter of agreed policy , to present a common front to prospective buyers who could not therefore accuse a particular tradesman of unfairly , unjustly discrediting him as a personal vendetta . |
| 26 | This not only kept the suit in good condition and therefore prolonged its life but also provided him with a smart outfit always ready at short notice , as now . |
| 27 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 28 | The answer is probably to run him on a left hand track where such antics would not cost him so much ground . |
| 29 | She was 15 at the time of the wedding , and was to present him with seven children , among them the future Charles I. She also presented him with an embarrassing situation by deciding after a while to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 30 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |