Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father .
2 During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister .
3 The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE .
4 The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial .
5 On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington .
6 Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer .
7 The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally .
8 The President called him into the room .
9 His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses .
10 Skipper Malcolm Ring promoted him to No 4 in the batting order as they chased victory against a team from Doncaster .
11 She in return regarded him with what looked like admiration .
12 ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly .
13 Lord Brougham believed of Liverpool that : ‘ No minister ever passed his time with so little ill-will directed against himself , or had so much forbearance shown him upon all occasions . ’
14 Sudden pity softened him towards her , and he forgot his urge for revenge .
15 His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect .
16 The boy fixed him with a final look , but said no more , and slipped away into the crowd , only turning back once more .
17 The other , Benedict XIII , fled to the castle of Peñiscola in north-east Spain , where he spent the remainder of his days : the Council deposed him in July 1417 .
18 Or had Roman told him about last night ?
19 He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ?
20 He condemned postwar curtailment of civil liberties , and support for parliamentary reform involved him in metropolitan politics , but he disappointed Whigs and Radicals alike .
21 His staunch Calvinism allied him to George Whitefield [ q.v. ] , whose pulpits in London and the west country he sometimes filled , and made him ‘ violent against John Wesley ’ [ q.v . ] .
22 Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach .
23 Villa 's contribution to Walker 's celebrations was their worst defensive display of the season and an embarrassing individual performance by England Under-21 international Ugo Ehiogu , who failed to live up to the big pre-match build-up given him by Ron Atkinson .
24 A friend of Watt 's at the University introduced him to John Roebuck , an industrialist who was involved with coal mines and iron works in Scotland .
25 His blue sash marked him as a Hearthware , and his face was red with heat and wine .
26 The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words .
27 Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ?
28 Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over .
29 The Rump Parliament appointed him to a special commission to overhaul naval and customs administration , to the second high court of justice , to the post of check inwards at the London customs , and to the Hale commission on law reform .
30 In the second case , there will need to be an original and a duplicate ( or examined copy ) of each document so that the husband has a record of the release from the first mortgage and of the indemnity given him in respect of the second mortgage .
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