Example sentences of "[verb] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation , and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages . |
| 2 | It would win him few friends in the offices of Century , few cosy evenings with his subordinates in the clubland of Mayfair . |
| 3 | For me , his victory last season with Ten Plus when there were only four runners , convinced me his chaser would win him another Gold Cup , a race he must have won had he not fallen at that fatal third fence from home . |
| 4 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 5 | No , they would simply tell him again to mind his own business and send him another note composed of gibberish . |
| 6 | Go to his office and make a scene , or send him some flowers there with a really embarrassing message , or something . |
| 7 | Because your £6 helps buy him protective clothing and helps us provide him with the best equipped boats . |
| 8 | Because your £6 helps buy him protective clothing and helps us provide him with the best equipped boats . |
| 9 | They were only too pleased to grant him early retirement back in September when they needed to shed staff . |
| 10 | The Countryside Commission were to sign a deal with the Duke of Devonshire in September to grant him Capital Transfer Tax exemption ( estimated to be worth £12,000,000 ) in turn for large parts of this 130km 2 in the Dales becoming a public heritage centre under the Heritage Estate arrangement introduced by Leeds MP Denis Healey in 1975 to prevent the breakup of large estates ( the MP himself having just become President of the National Trust 's Yorkshire Moors & Dales Appeal ) . |
| 11 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 12 | ‘ That depends how you mean ‘ thaw ’ , ’ she conceded coolly , ‘ Frankly I would n't trust him one inch . |
| 13 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
| 14 | You 'll have to meet him one day , Karen , seriously . ’ |
| 15 | She had expected to meet him one day , but never like this . |
| 16 | Once more she saw the attractive man she had noticed in the High Street , and her colour rose as she recalled how she had hoped to meet him some day . |
| 17 | Barbosa there used to meet him most afternoons in the bullrings in Spain . |
| 18 | The Anglo-American conglomerate that went public in 1964 romped in with results that should guarantee him another bumper pay packet . |
| 19 | In that same year he married his cousin Helen , daughter of John and Joanna Smyth , and between 1797 and 1805 she bore him six daughters and two sons . |
| 20 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 21 | She bore him two daughters and was buried 13 June 1691 , five days after her husband . |
| 22 | Betty bore him two daughters . |
| 23 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |
| 24 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
| 25 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 26 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
| 27 | He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him , and she bore him three sons . |
| 28 | As the Lent term progressed , besides his letters to Helen and Harry ( containing verses , some of which survive ) and his quick recovery from his failure to gain an entrance scholarship to Merton , he had renewed an acquaintance with MacAlister — an old Pauline friend — who visited him each Sunday . |
| 29 | She visited him that day . |
| 30 | She visited him two days later , just after he had cut his thumb on the mouse-trap and was bleeding into the sink . |