Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baxter 's influential friends had secured for him four of the ablest barristers in the land , but it was obvious from the beginning of the trial that Jeffries had already decided what the verdict would be . |
| 2 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 3 | In relation to Jesus , popular tradition has imposed upon him one of the oldest and most archetypal of functions — that of the eternal adversary , the dark opposite , the embodiment of all the vices and iniquities that the hero is not . |
| 4 | At a table in the alcove on the dining-room wall sat the girl Camb had brought to him earlier in the day , an elderly woman and a man . |
| 5 | Craig glanced down at the sheaf of papers lying on the small table beside him , brought to him earlier in the day by Edward Morris , papers that proved Craig 's innocence . |
| 6 | The Fauves , who owed more to Gauguin from a purely pictorial standpoint , inherited from him some of the spontaneity and decorative rhythms of Polynesian art ; and by 1907 both Matisse and Derain had absorbed into their own work some of the formal properties of tribal sculpture . |
| 7 | The prosecution accepted that the notebook proved Mr Thompson had been involved in the distribution of obscene material , a charge the countess had levelled at him earlier in the trial but that he had denied . |