Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is conceivable , too , that the Sihtric dux who witnesses three of Cnut 's charters may be the Dublin monarch Sihtric Silkbeard , who used dies evidently made for him in the mint at Chester to strike pennies naming him king of the Irish and modelled on Cnut 's Quatrefoil type . |
| 2 | ‘ Hi knowledge of the world and excellent manners assured him popularity ’ . |
| 3 | An indifferent speller will know that some words cause him difficulty , and will ask for them ; but he will also think he is spelling some words correctly that he is , in fact , getting wrong . |
| 4 | The guards called him Fou-Fou and me Andy . |
| 5 | He may also have obtained from Popes Leo III and Paschal I privileges giving him control of all the monasteries he had acquired . |
| 6 | With every day that passed he became ever more despairing and hopeless as messengers brought him reports of the army 's casualties . |
| 7 | When army designers sent him prototypes , he sent them back . |
| 8 | His reactions caused him pleasure , fury , deep repose or inner peace . |
| 9 | McCALL Header off line crucial in first half , while surging runs and accurate long-range passes made him thorn in Leeds ' flesh 8 |
| 10 | The royal commission on awards to inventors awarded him £12,000 in 1948 for his work on the bridge . |
| 11 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 12 | If the radical tendency of his lectures brought him enemies , it was the new friends he was making who were to prove more important . |
| 13 | His parents call him Pooh . |
| 14 | When his parents tackled him Iain would say he was in control . |
| 15 | It is here that William the Conqueror is said to have bribed two friars to help him gain access to the City of York after he had besieged it unsuccessfully . |
| 16 | Tony Adewumi , 53 , clocked up huge amounts of overtime , often putting in shifts of up to 14 hours to help him pay of debts , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 17 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 18 | The libel had arisen over letters written since late 1991 by another Syrian , Misbah Baki , to the Saudi Prince Khalid bin Sultan , alleging that Said had failed to keep earlier promises to lend him money . |
| 19 | In October , riding high after the August coup , he forced deputies to give him emergency powers to appoint the government and rule by decree for a year . |
| 20 | The early interest in church architecture and brasses afforded him destinations for the bicycle . |
| 21 | The Egyptians called him Khons , the Phoenicians , Bel-Samen ; and the Chaldeans , Sin and Hur . |
| 22 | But if the woman cotton worker were married to a miner or an engineer , then the husband usually refused to do housework , his substantially higher earnings gave him breadwinner status and , notwithstanding his wife 's employment , the right to leisure while at home . |
| 23 | Shilton rightly won the PFA 's player award , while Burns re-formed so impressively that we writers voted him Footballer of the Year . |
| 24 | Charles , in the meantime , would invite people who he knew shared his enthusiasms to keep him company . |
| 25 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |
| 26 | Occasionally , behind his back , subordinates called him Desperado , to his face he was always Dan . |
| 27 | Parker — his first name was Hugh , if his pals called him Shug or Shuggie — it was his first sore eye , his first fight , if you could call it that , since he was a child ; about six or seven , a girl had beat him up . |
| 28 | Lori gave him bits and pieces of information gleaned from her husband . |
| 29 | Re-stowing the rest of the sails gave him time to get the details straight in his head . |
| 30 | Meehan should have been released immediately , but instead the authorities offered him parole , that is release on licence , which he properly and courageously rejected , knowing it could not be long before he was released unconditionally . |