Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year the Republic refused to extradite Mr Ryan to Britain to face terrorism charges , including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions , on the grounds that allegations in the Press and Parliament linking him with the IRA meant he would not receive a fair trial in Britain . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the buyer will wish to have the comfort of the guarantee , and , in addition , whatever rights law and statute grant him in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 3 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
| 4 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 5 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 6 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 7 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 8 | Minton 's virtuoso performances with pencil or pen and ink commended him as a teacher . |
| 9 | The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world . |
| 10 | An exception is made in this instance because the policeman 's task in maintaining law and order exposes him to a greater risk of attack than other members of the public . |
| 11 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 12 | The quarrel between faith and unbelief touched him for the first time and unsettled his mind . |
| 13 | After the darkness and coolness the light and heat struck him like a blow . |
| 14 | One way and another , Attlee looks better with every passing year — a kind of benevolent public school master , whose sense of duty and justice raised him above the sectional partisanship of class or party . |
| 15 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |