Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 2 | Heavily in debt , following the failure of his appeal to the King 's Bench , he had to be rescued by his friends , Western and Samuel Whitbread [ q.v. ] , the latter paying him an annuity of £1,000 . |
| 3 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 4 | But the Sixties gave him a background to emerge from ; in fact , he wrote part of the script for the age and it never left him ; he did n't allow it to leave him . |
| 5 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |