Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
2 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
3 | The Headmaster himself was an aloof and somewhat austere figure in public , betraying his emotions only twice — when he announced , on the afternoon of 11th November 1918 to the assembled school , the signing of the Armistice , and when some sixth-formers presented him with a gift to mark his marriage . |
4 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
5 | Some Burmese regard him as a future Buddha . |
6 | The boy was in Nunnery Lane when another youth asked him for a ride on the bike and never returned . |
7 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
8 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
9 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
10 | He was not widely known , but many commentators identified him as a conservative and suggested that he was unenthusiastic about market economic reform . |
11 | There were plate-glass windows on three sides of the office … and what Cardiff saw through those windows brought him to a halt . |
12 | He argues that freedom of choice makes a man responsible for his actions while the capacity to reason about those choices places him under a continuing obligation to take responsibility for those actions . |
13 | ‘ We specialised in many happy social events in addition to tennis , ’ says Harold , who would like former members to contact him with a view to holding a reunion . |
14 | That effort marked him as a classic possible and his work on the gallops leaves no doubt in my mind that he has trained on and can dispose of Azhar on his way to better things . |
15 | any money to take him to a tribunal . |
16 | Tom Jones held his young hurdler Jackson Flint in enough esteem to enter him in a race at the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival meeting even though he does not yet have a win to his credit . |
17 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
18 | His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism , with a threefold ministry of evangelists , pastors , and teachers . |
19 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |