Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You pay a forfeit to put him in that race . |
| 2 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 3 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 4 | He had a council to advise him on these policy decisions , and he and his council recognized the great similarity between the powers of the assembly and those of the House of Commons in passing laws and imposing new taxes . |
| 5 | When one master tires of a slave , it is a commonplace to sell him to another . ’ |
| 6 | Ian Wiley of Ireland had a time some 3 seconds faster than the winner but his 5 second penalty for touching a gate put him in 4th place overall . |
| 7 | Is it not an attack upon the integrity of a man to alienate him from those actions which spring from his deep convictions in order that he might fit in with utilitarian calculations ? |
| 8 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 9 | A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’ |
| 10 | A penalty and a conversion took him to 403 , still within sight of John Liley 's record of 439 with three weeks of the season left . |