Example sentences of "and [vb past] him [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | To secure the services of Reeves-Smith , he purchased the Berkeley Hotel in 1900 and appointed him managing director of the Savoy Company . |
2 | Then I played a trick on Michael , who was a great chatter-up of girls at that time , and told him this person in costume was very keen on him , so he began to chat him up . |
3 | It was not long before his medical knowledge had ingratiated him with the prison doctor and afforded him all sorts of privileges . |
4 | But she also denied knowing Dassac , and the police subsequently discovered that she had had numerous telephone conversations with him and paid him large sums of money under a false name through a Swiss bank account . |
5 | They stabbed and slashed him 45 times with hunting knives . |
6 | He pulled her to the ground and indecently assaulted her but abandoned the attack after the woman screamed and bit him several times on one hand . |
7 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
8 | Sergeant licked Master 's face and hands and gave him playful nips on the arms . |
9 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
10 | He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 . |
11 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
12 | The injury temporarily blinded one eye and gave him double vision in the other , but is now no more than a bruise , said his wife . |
13 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
14 | She made no mention of her disastrous trip to Brynteg , told him she 'd met someone else , and wished him good luck with deliberate finality when she said goodbye . |
15 | Twenty-one when she met Peter , she married him two years later and left him six years after that . |