Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 2 | In particular , the powerful Beni-Gomez family schemed continually against Rodrigo until Alfonso banished him in 1081 . |
| 3 | Lennox has not yet been hit in his 21 fights and if Razor gets him with that left smash , it 's goodnight . ’ |
| 4 | For Prothero is the demon-king of the Poundian pantomime , ever since Pound cast him for this role by printing , at the end of his essay on De Gourmont — originally in the Little Review , then in Instigations ( 1920 ) — the letter which Prothero wrote him in October 1914 : |
| 5 | It was hell again for Norman , who was crucified by Faldo in the third round of the 1990 Open at St Andrews , when they set out sharing the lead before Faldo hammered him by nine shots . |
| 6 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |
| 7 | THE Bishop of Gloucester was in hiding last night after police quizzed him about alleged indecent behaviour towards a novice monk . |
| 8 | Educated at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Phil Richardson had initially shown great promise as a goalkeeper and played professionally with Aston Villa before injury forced him into premature retirement . |
| 9 | When MacDonald told him on 29 September that he was having difficulty finding a formula which could unite his colleagues , George V |
| 10 | A week later , poor Walsh was involved in another traumatic final over as Pakistan despatched him for 14 to win off the final ball . |
| 11 | But when Duncan reminded him of this incident some years later , he " not only denied knowing the ballad but singing it … " |
| 12 | ‘ He is that kind of Dharjee , ’ the head had said , when Robert asked him about this . |
| 13 | Collinson 's first garden at Peckham was a modest one , but from there he took nosegays and potted flowers to grace his City window , and when Kalm visited him in 1748 he remarked on the many rare American plants already established there . |
| 14 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 15 | His jaw hung open , and he was near enough for me to see the rain dashing from his face — when lightning showed him at all . |