Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 2 | I rated him as the best British droll comedian we had . |
| 3 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 4 | ‘ I just missed everything , ’ moaned Ivanisevic , who crashed 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to a clay court specialist who also beat him at the French Open this year . |
| 5 | Afterwards , Bowe dismissed Lewis , who beat him in the 1988 Olympic final , as ‘ a big , ugly bum ’ . |
| 6 | If he was thus eligible for that title , there must have been something which qualified him — something which distinguished him from the numerous other leaders , both military and political , who at the time were themselves becoming thorns in the Roman side . |
| 7 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 8 | The fate that befell him in the 1956 Grand National booked him a permanent place not only in the reminiscences of racing folk but in the British national memory . |
| 9 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 10 | Lord Harris admits Robertson has ‘ some weaknesses that , if not curbed , could totally cancel out his strengths ’ , but he defended him before the academic advisory council , on the grounds that he had not been sufficiently protected by guidelines , and that it would be difficult to find a replacement with his many gifts . |
| 11 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 12 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 13 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 14 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 15 | But she no longer treated him with the old irritable dismissiveness ; she knew of Edouard 's reputation as a businessman , and obviously had heard his abilities praised , for she now regarded him warily , as if trying to decide whether , after all , she might have been wrong , and her younger son might be of use to her . |
| 16 | Rose saw him at the heavy red gate of the yard . |
| 17 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
| 18 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 19 | This hatred and distrust was fuelled when Arthur Kitson of Kitson Empire Lighting Company in Stamford introduced him to the famous anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion , which claimed that the Jews were about to take over the world ( an example of modern mythologising for political purposes ) . |
| 20 | The vicar of St Giles introduced him to the little religious group called the Oratory of the Good Shepherd , and one of those priests , Gordon Day , became a friend of Ramsey and adviser in religion . |
| 21 | As a Unitarian he was debarred from holding civic appointments or public office , but , following the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 , for the annulment of which he had campaigned , the corporation of Newcastle in 1832 invested him with the highest judicial function in their gift , the recordership , and shortly afterwards with the honorary freedom of the city . |
| 22 | He cleared the breakfast things and left him with the small addressed postcard that he had been provided with to write a message on for his mother . |