Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [vb past] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 2 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 3 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 4 | Such suspicions were reinforced when he made this pampered favourite Duke of Lennox and granted him the revenues of Arbroath abbey . |
| 5 | Jack Carter fumbled a cigarette out of a packet of Players and gave him a light . |
| 6 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 7 | She could believe that this was the creature that had floated inside her — yes , like a starry astronaut in his liquid capsule , attached to his red life-support cable — she had pored over photographs of embryos and imagined him a hundred times . |
| 8 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |