Example sentences of "[vb past] him [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 2 | Some of us worried and went looking for him , then one of Alf Wood 's sons found him dead in the old pw hut , we think he died of a heart attack or so the doctor said . |
| 3 | I sat down in Dad 's chair and told him all about the old lady and her brother , or at least what I knew , which was n't much . |
| 4 | Tom handed him one of the two small buff-coloured boxes and they both slung them over their shoulders and set off . |
| 5 | Dickie bored him all through the first course with stories of the Navy in the First World War , and all through the second course with stories of the Navy in the Second World War , and then he got up and said , ‘ I 've got to go now to a meeting of the Chiefs of Staff , but the Prime Minister will keep you amused . ' ’ |
| 6 | His wealth made him one of the principal paymasters of the English Catholic community , and in political circles he was generally seen as the leader of Catholic opinion . |
| 7 | The answer is that his remarkable methods as batsman , bowler and captain made him one of the great sporting entertainers . |
| 8 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 9 | His wife 's share in the partition of the vast Gloucester estates made him one of the leading territorial magnates and led to his being summoned to Parliament from November 1317 . |
| 10 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 11 | Vaughan 's constant sense that he was one of life 's outsiders , never a participant , that he was always ‘ trying to hold on to a reality which is no more than a projection of my own nerves ’ , made him sympathetic to the blighted , visionary anti-hero in Benjamin Britten 's opera , Peter Grimes , the première of which marked the reopening of the Sadler 's Wells Theatre after the war . |
| 12 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 13 | He had to be patient , but his wish finally came true last year , when at the age of 40 , his work as a sports photographer brought him face-to-face with the biggest desert of them all — the awe-inspiring Sahara . |
| 14 | This left him defenceless against the foreign white blood cells in the transfused blood . |
| 15 | But later in the afternoon the light clothing he was wearing left him ill-prepared for the chilling mist and rain that slid down the mountainsides , poignantly recorded on the damp film found in his camera . |
| 16 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |