Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 2 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 3 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 4 | Manuel had quietly melted away , perhaps to leave the stage clear for Andy , perhaps to grieve alone at the cruel injustice that had robbed him of the top prize . |
| 5 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 6 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 7 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 8 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 9 | ‘ He claims to have met him for the first time at the Windorah ; it 's a bar frequented mainly by foreigners . |
| 10 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 11 | Shannon had met him for the first time when he 'd arrived to film the pilot episode , and her dislike for the golden Adonis had been instant . |
| 12 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 13 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 14 | If it failed , there would be no mercy shown him by the enraged Executioner . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've relieved him of the financial burden , but we both share the interest of the place . ’ |
| 16 | And then you 've got him on the right hand side look making cheese , this is brother again , that 's not brother . |
| 17 | This kind of thing has an unsettling effect on a player but fortunately David is a level-headed lad and I 've told him about the latest situation . |
| 18 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 19 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 20 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 21 | ‘ I wish I 'd never employed him in the first place ! ’ |
| 22 | She 'd invited him round the previous evening and things had n't gone at all as he 'd hoped . |
| 23 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 24 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 25 | It was not until the oriental had addressed the armed newcomer with the blackened face , that the two youngsters had recognised him as the private detective Brett Grant . |
| 26 | A new manager and a new accountant had alerted him to the alarming fact that , notwithstanding his private plane , home recording studio and sports cars , he was short of money . |
| 27 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 28 | He claimed a British TV cameraman had distracted him during the second run , ruining his concentration and his chances of a top-three finish . |
| 29 | It had reduced him to the same level , just another anonymous treatment that her body had required . |
| 30 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |