Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open , at least for a time ? |
| 2 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 3 | He must have been crouched behind a bank of snow watching him all the time as he came struggling and panting up the long slope . |
| 4 | He accepted the direction of a United States public-relations expert to help him present a favourable impression of the revolution , and was described by a Department of State official as ‘ a man on his best behaviour ’ throughout the visit ( Memo for the president from Christian A. Herter , 23 April 1959 , US Declassified , 1976 , 58F ) . |
| 5 | When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah . |
| 6 | Stephen Pyper pressured him all the way , while Alister McKerr the championship leader fought tooth and nail to take third having started in midfield after problems in practice . |
| 7 | All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him . |
| 8 | The bearded man watched him all the time . |
| 9 | I was delighted that the people of Britain gave him such a marvellous reception . |
| 10 | And with that she turned on him herself and raising up her wings struck him such a blow with her talons that he rolled back out of control in the air , the tops of the pine trees below spinning before his eyes . |
| 11 | The witnesses immediately before him painted a picture of an elaborate liar , one whose testimony could probably not be trusted under oath , and of a petty thief who bought lingerie , so it appeared , with money meant for the contras ; some committee members considered him such a ‘ wacko ’ , in the patois , that his testimony would be next to useless . |
| 12 | Or sometimes Andrew had been so drunk that Iain shouldered him all the way home . |
| 13 | John Major had no real choice of date this time , but March and April gave him such a nail-biting experience that he will never again postpone an election until so near the terminal date . |
| 14 | However , Ballyclare 's Geoff McBride pushed him all the way , only losing out by a quarter of a machine 's length at the chequered flag after having sat on Menary 's rear bumper for the complete race . |
| 15 | The dreamwork process thus thinly disguises it , making Gloucester kill him all the same , but accidentally . |