Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1954 Sir Winston Churchill appointed him financial secretary to the Treasury under his old Marlborough friend , R. A. Butler ( later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden , q.v . ) . |
| 2 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 3 | His agent phoned him last week . |
| 4 | The job search took him seven years , and by that time he was ripe for retirement . |
| 5 | Now Delia Sutherland gave him proper attention . |
| 6 | Andrea bought him , you know the big ja he 's g always got a pocket full any time at all ooh that jar Andrea bought him that Christmas full of toffees |
| 7 | He told Mr. Frost about Beckett 's law and Mr. Frost asked him several times whether the level of taxation that would then result — |
| 8 | Steve Savage of Grafton met him several times after Frankfurt . |
| 9 | When Wickham met him that evening he told a tale that shook the MacQuillan empire to its core . |
| 10 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 11 | Pastor told him that business was more important and he threw a tantrum . |
| 12 | Throughout his long marriage his homosexuality caused him great unhappiness , and if there was any one key to Laughton 's greatness as an actor then it was surely his sense of being a misfit , uneasy in his own skin and forever on the outside of the social , sexual , and familial demands of his upbringing and conditioning . |
| 13 | Her exit caused him more concern than if she had made it in the blaze of anger similar to that with which she had first confronted him . |
| 14 | MIKE Watkinson 's pick ‘ n mix deliveries brought him ten wickets in a match for the first time yesterday as Lancashire thrashed Warwickshire by an innings and 25 runs at Edgbaston . |
| 15 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 16 | Irritated by her presence , Henry had mocked and teased her nevertheless , for he could be quite beastly when the mood took him that way . |
| 17 | Alec Home gave him similar advice . |
| 18 | The works of his so-called ‘ pink ’ and ‘ blue ’ periods were being bought by important collectors , and the fact that an established dealer like Vollard was interested in his work gave him additional prestige . |
| 19 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 20 | This one act earned him unfailing hatred and opposition . |
| 21 | De Lorenzo 's move follows a decision by his Liberal party to retract earlier threats to pull out of government unless Amato gave him public support . |
| 22 | The growth of the industrial proletariat convinced him that state education for all was essential , though in 1809 he asked : ‘ What can you expect of national education conducted by a government which for twenty years resisted the abolition of the Slave Trade ? ’ |
| 23 | The existing ordinance gave him enough power . |
| 24 | Land was the basis of Lowther 's county and parliamentary position ; the law gave him added influence and opportunity . |
| 25 | It would have been less harrowing to have got the meeting over quickly ; on the other hand the delay while he awaited her return gave him more time to think and plan . |
| 26 | As we noted earlier , one of the reasons why Franco ultimately revised his former anti-western attitudes was that the crisis of economic autarchy left him little choice . |
| 27 | His contract allowed him fifteen francs a day , if Zborowski could manage it , to cover all his needs . |
| 28 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |
| 29 | The man with her demanded a double Scotch on the rocks and Emil told him that alcohol was available only after departure . |
| 30 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |