Example sentences of "[vb past] him [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foley , stony-faced , told him that the dirty tricks brigade , led by Charles Fraser-Smith , had turned up earlier to make a replica of the prisoner 's uniform , correct in every detail . |
| 2 | In April he told him that the next war had already started . |
| 3 | I do n't know how much of it he read , but the entry for May 20th must have galled him because it told him that the potential wage-earner had spent much of the day in playing cricket . |
| 4 | And now his experienced eye told him that the foremost ranks could be reached , but still he did not move , nor did any of the bowmen loose . |
| 5 | They advised him that the Spanish government had evidence of Italian and German intervention and urged him to supervise the non-intervention agreement more effectively . |
| 6 | In 1923 , at a Balliol gaudy , he met his old tutor , A. L. Smith [ q.v. ] , now the master , who advised him that the best cure for blindness was to have the teeth extracted . |
| 7 | The Provincial Commissioner , Philip Mitchell , then near the beginning of the career which was to culminate in the governorships of Uganda and Kenya , complimented Murrells on his anthropological acumen — and advised him that the local councils of elders should ‘ consist where possible of one man , with three or more advisers , rather than a Committee because of the notorious weakness of Committees as executive instruments ’ . |
| 8 | One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned . |
| 9 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 10 | About sixty former members of the BUF joined him and the last phase of his career in English politics had begun . |
| 11 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 12 | I asked him if the fundamental problem is that those who have are too selfish to help . |
| 13 | Sometimes too he would take duck and geese as they floated on some high lochan , coming on them so low along the ground that they only saw him when the massive darkness of his wings came over the peat edge and shadowed out their life . |
| 14 | The author 's experience in Africa and Australia , and his study in Europe , convinced him that the participative training techniques developed by the ATB had much to otter agricultural progress in all countries , third world developing countries as well as developed countries . |
| 15 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 16 | I kicked him and the long-life lead just come I kicked him again . |
| 17 | His wife ran off with one of the doctors at the hospital , left him and the two kids , that odd-looking daughter and the small boy , poor little fellow . |