Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin . |
| 2 | Mr Clinton claims new , higher estimates of the US government 's budget deficit forced him to sharply revise his election platform . |
| 3 | When Lincoln University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate ( 1951 ) his delight was obvious . |
| 4 | According to teletext , he is set to move for 2.7 million , text also says that it is a boardroom decision to sell him , he is currently in talks with Kenny daglesh . |
| 5 | luc says he 's going to enjoy playing in England … because the way Swindon play suits him |
| 6 | When I heard Deane had begged the Sheffield board to let him come to Leeds , I was really pleased that we had someone who really wanted to be here . |
| 7 | The primrose yellow suited him , she thought . |
| 8 | Very few people took Gedge 's humour the wrong way , but on one of those occasions an NME reviewer labelled him a ‘ gawky , arrogant mighty mouth . ’ |
| 9 | Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent . |
| 10 | The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute . |
| 11 | David Straney increased Glenavon 's lead when the Larne defence allowed him time and space to score . |
| 12 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 13 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 14 | You never knew when your luck would turn — another mean Taibach slogan to see him through these dazzling fields of honey and clover . |
| 15 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 16 | However , the Dulwich experience taught him to toughen up . |
| 17 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 18 | Then a hammer blow struck him below his left shoulder blade , and he was punched violently to the ground by the heavy .32 slug . |
| 19 | ‘ The powers that be in MI5 , by the way , believed enough in Mills being a KGB agent to offer him immunity from prosecution in exchange for confession and cooperation . |
| 20 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 21 | A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall . |
| 22 | A conventional classics education at the equivalent of anOxbridge college brought him to Paris . |
| 23 | He wanted to take O'Hara to the Beaux Arts Club to drink him into sleep . |
| 24 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 25 | His cheesecutter hat and Burberry overcoat gave him the look of a working class spiv . |
| 26 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 27 | The Singh home intrigued him because although Jazz — apart from his looks — was as normal as himself , once in his own house he took on a sort of foreign ambience , changing subtly into an Indian to fit into the undeniably different atmosphere . |
| 28 | At a public inquiry in March , Mr Fenney appealed against three enforcement notices issued by Warrington Borough Council requiring him to reduce the size of the driving range . |
| 29 | DAVID BARDSLEY will be re-united with Graham Taylor in Spain next week — nine years after the then Watford boss signed him from Blackpool . |
| 30 | The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip . |