Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | And his librettist , Alessandro Striggio , son of the composer , provided him with many more opportunities than Rinuccini to break up the recitative with musically attractive relief : extended madrigalian choruses and strophic solos such as Orfeo 's lilting ‘ Vi ricordo ’ in Act II ( accompanied only by continuo instruments , but with ritornelli played by five viole da braccio , a contrabass , two harpsichords , and three chitarroni ) , his display piece ‘ Possente spirto ’ in Act III ( accompanied by organo di legno and a chitarrone , but in the four stanzas competing with brilliant concertante parts for two violini , then two cornetti , a double-harp , and finally a string trio ) , and his swinging ‘ Qual honor ’ in Act IV ( varied strophes for the voice over an ostinato bass ) . |
| 2 | Alured 's son John became a colonel in Ireland but did not survive him by many years . |
| 3 | Aymer thus stood in the midst of a ramified genealogical network relating him to many families within the French nobility . |
| 4 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 5 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 6 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 7 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 8 | " He is , but we have n't seen him for many , many years , for more than we can remember . " |
| 9 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 10 | Since then , Dr Richardson has met him on many occasions , and he conveyed the university 's invitation to the Dalai Lama . |
| 11 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 12 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 13 | Wally Smott 's mediocrity raised him above many of the managers who guided the club over the years , but Athletico reserved a bottom six position from 1951 to 1955 and Ken Mentle 's dream of League football became a nightmare . |
| 14 | A keen diver and photographer , he runs a marine consultancy part time that takes him to many of the world 's most interesting coral reefs . |
| 15 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 16 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 17 | She had known him for many years . |
| 18 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 19 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 20 | The White Lions protected him from many assassination attempts and his personal retinue of Sapherian wizards countered all death-spells . |
| 21 | His engineering analysis of the problem brought him to many ideas that were very similar to Alexander 's in terms of posture and sitting . |
| 22 | They would have cast him in many a role in one of their plays . |
| 23 | Perhaps his father had the kind of job which took him to many parts of the country , and possibly he took the boy with him , I do not know . |
| 24 | His spare time took him to many of Yorkshire 's fixtures . |
| 25 | In the years that followed , his career took him to many different locations and a wide variety of posts within our Department . |
| 26 | Mr F , 35 has an alcohol problem and his wife , 32 , has supported him through many difficult periods . |
| 27 | She loved him neither for his even disposition or vast estate — for neither could he offer — and saw him through many tempestuous years of attempts to influence bands and musicians to the floaty sounds that have now met such brilliant commercial success . |
| 28 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 29 | The Earl of Argyll , Archibald Campbell , introduced him to many of the Scottish nobles , and he found some of them less objectionable than he 'd expected . |
| 30 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |