Example sentences of "[vb past] him [conj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |
| 2 | He received his certificate in July 1947 but the British coal industry had been nationalised in January of that year and his new bosses told him that in the changed circumstances they would not be able to carry out the undertaking he had been given . |
| 3 | One told him that in the residential sector , placing authorities are often the last to realise that client abuse is going on . |
| 4 | Dermot Desmond , who secured his investment in UPH and whose executives Kevin Barry and Chris McHugh indirectly controlled the site until days before Telecom purchased it , apparently never advised him as to the potential conflict of interest . |
| 5 | The American camp withdrew him and under the same rule that is used in Ryder Cup matches his match was declared to be halved . |
| 6 | Fairbanks 's corals showed him that in the de-glaciating world around 13,000 years ago , a rapid acceleration occurred . |
| 7 | Charles 's own inclination was always towards a pro-French and anti-Dutch policy , though marriages between the Stuart family and the ruling Dutch House of Orange slightly restrained him and by the 1670s most Englishmen were beginning to be a little worried by the increasing power of France . |
| 8 | Nevertheless she followed him and for the next quarter of an hour they streaked up and down the pool . |
| 9 | John Kenworthy replaced him and in the 86th minute netted with an angled shot . |