Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having decided that they would accept Mr Cowdrill as a franchisee , Athena took responsibility for finding him a suitable site , in a prime position in Sutton Coldfield . |
| 2 | Mr Johnson , of Coningsby Drive , Kidderminster , claimed the company had boasted of the success of using saleswomen and never had any intention of offering him a job because he was a man . |
| 3 | He also paid Cranmer the compliment of making him a Penitentiary for England . |
| 4 | Pickering had nurtured Davies since his days as a schoolboy triple jumper , and Davies has frequently credited Pickering with giving him the confidence to compete at top level . |
| 5 | Political analysts said Tuesday 's outspoken comments by Mr Chirac — like Mr Giscard d'Estaing a candidate for the presidency — seemed to be a tactic to dissuade Mr Mitterrand from offering him the premiership rather than an attempt to force the president out immediately . |
| 6 | But the love that surrounds that boy is having a marvellous effect in giving him a life . |
| 7 | I hoped my action in sending him the book would place him under a sense of obligation . |
| 8 | It would be a tragic error to buy this man out of Kuwait by awarding him the starring role in Arab dealings with Israel . |
| 9 | And once they were christened , as we might expect , the ‘ Hooligans ’ were understood as an entirely unprecedented and ‘ un-British ’ phenomenon : indeed , we must allow that it was most ingenious of late Victorian England to disown the British Hooligan by giving him an ‘ Irish ’ name . |
| 10 | ‘ Tom Jones sang ‘ Unbelievable ’ , I did a rap and kind of gave him a mock blow job at the end . |
| 11 | Will wi' gie 'im a doin' ? ( thrashing ) Someone else shouted : ‘ Smash in his bloody heid ! ’ |
| 12 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 13 | And he must be mad to want to shunt him into the sidings before throwing him an England shirt again . |
| 14 | By 1958 , with more than 50 papers published , the University of London recognised Barber 's contribution to chemotherapy by awarding him a DSc . |
| 15 | CELTIC boss Liam Brady has offered Derry boy Nigel Melly a one year extension to his contract — just weeks after showing him the door . |
| 16 | He could he was a brilliant machinist and er oh crikey I 've seen him turn out a a three throw er crankshaft within a couple of days er you know without any precise measuring and and and in fact he just sort of put his roll on on on a on the shaft he was turning and just sort of gave him an idea as to I mean his eye was almost as good as many a bloke 's measur measurement with a rule . |
| 17 | He thought she might be on the point of offering him a nip of whisky but she did not go that far . |
| 18 | There would have been no possibility of winning her consent to handing him the tape , let alone the private detective 's report . |
| 19 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 20 | Dogs Today 's Launch issue cover story last November featured Guinness , who earned a Bounce Superdog award when he saved his owner from a diabetic coma by fetching him a Mars bar . |
| 21 | A further court case , in which Lothar Neethling from the forensic laboratory , now a lieutenant-general and number three in the South African Police , tried to sue a newspaper for calling him a poisoner , showed Coetzee to be a reliable and accurate witness . |
| 22 | The 26-year-old University of Natal graduate , credited his god with giving him the concentration he needed for his marathon . |
| 23 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 24 | The old king rewarded Sigmar by giving him the warhammer Ghal Maraz , or Skull Splitter , an ancient magic heirloom of Kurgan 's house . |
| 25 | The Manchester-based Alsecure team have backed McGuigan by giving him a free drive in the rally , plus an attempt at next year 's British Championship , but experienced co-driver Allan Whittaker is cautious about the Irishman 's chances . |
| 26 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 27 | At the government-controlled newspaper Izvestia , the staff threatened to go on strike when their editor , who is a Kravchenko-like conservative , tried to get rid of his liberal deputy by giving him a cushy job as Madrid correspondent . |
| 28 | TERRORISTS tried to murder a soldier last night by giving him a tin of chocolates containing a bomb . |
| 29 | For if they vote with John Major next Wednesday , they will have played a crucial part in giving him a fresh mandate to break his election promises . ’ |
| 30 | Igor is on loan to us today for 37 minutes and , should he keep a clean sheet , I will have no hesitation in offering him a full contract and the captain 's job . |