Example sentences of "it [verb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
2 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
3 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
4 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
5 | The spirit came upon Jesus at the baptism , upon a man , upon a man and it came upon him It raised him from the dead . |
6 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |
7 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
8 | It identifies him with the Norman cause and the Norman heir , which becomes a threat if Duke William is successful . |
9 | This marriage was advantageous to him in that it introduced him into the local society but it was to last only three years , for in 1573 Jane died of smallpox at the age of 20 . |
10 | It introduced him to the human race . |
11 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
12 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
13 | It reminded him of the big shots in the trade union movement having sandwiches at Number 10 all those years ago . |
14 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |