Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd enjoyed a brief dalliance with Lorimer a few years earlier , after she 'd met him at one of the receptions Wakelate had attended , incognito , on business . |
| 2 | Where the old badger is coming from Bill Morrison 's motto in life is ‘ never volunteer , never refuse ’ , a policy which has landed him in some of the hottest seats in the profession , as he tells Julia Irvine |
| 3 | The Shah 's own household had provided him with one of the major problems of his reign . |
| 4 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 5 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 6 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 7 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 8 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |