Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 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 .
4 The primrose yellow suited him , she thought .
5 Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent .
6 The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute .
7 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 .
8 He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him .
9 Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father .
10 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 .
11 Then a hammer blow struck him below his left shoulder blade , and he was punched violently to the ground by the heavy .32 slug .
12 A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall .
13 A conventional classics education at the equivalent of anOxbridge college brought him to Paris .
14 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 .
15 The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat .
16 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 .
17 The spring rain soaked him but it was warm and he licked it as it trickled down his lip .
18 It was on an aid pitch that he took his only fall , ripping two pegs before the last aid point held him .
19 In February 1973 his geography teacher warned him in his report to : ‘ Be more aware of the influence of ‘ friends ’ who might adversely affect your future progress . ’
20 Just to look at the cradle he had ready and waiting with its green cover there in the living room transported him , ‘ though it was only a hospital where she was lying and where I sat near her . ’
21 He managed to free himself only when an ambulance team talked him into trying to wiggle his fingers .
22 And he went staggering back and of course the horse trough got him here and he sat down in it .
23 The burden of the message from schoolmaster Olver , who led Quins for three seasons before a head of department post took him to Northampton in 1990 , will be about debts — moral , not financial .
24 The frontier post spotted him from the photos we rushed to the western frontier .
25 PSYCHIATRIC reports are to be prepared on an unemployed woodcutter , Brian McGregor , whose forged football coupon lined him up for potential winnings of £3,826.47 billion .
26 It was De Gaulle who asked me the dumb question in the van-his condescension brought him down to what he imagined was my level .
27 She was waiting for him and ran across the entrance court to meet him .
28 The Chemics have refused Hornets permission to play McKenzie in their Regal tie against French side Catalan to prevent him from being cup-tied .
29 Last season Linny won all five Player of the Year awards ; the latest club newspaper describes him as ‘ tough as teak , the cornerstone of the Town defence . ’
30 Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment .
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