Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dribbly nose , crooked teeth and cheeky Cockney accent made him an obvious classroom victim . |
| 2 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |
| 3 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |
| 4 | Bishop soon abandoned the ‘ exalted ’ demeanour that troubled his brethren , and his organizational skills made him an invaluable member of the emerging movement . |
| 5 | Young 's Scottish background , Calvinist convictions , and diplomatic skills made him an ideal emissary , and he was praised by the archbishop of St Andrews , among others , for his persuasive performance . |
| 6 | For Foster the resurfaced family tradition of unionism and his newly acquired loyalty to Paisley made him an active and enthusiastic supporter of his political activities . |
| 7 | If some of Hoppé 's portraits and genre pictures have not stood the test of time , his influence on his contemporaries , his restless experimentation , his role in helping to found the London Salon of Photography , and his nineteen books made him an important figure in the history of twentieth-century photography . |
| 8 | Meredith flung him an eager glance , enthralled by the noise , the snow , the funereal gondolas bobbing in the water . |
| 9 | Landor 's want of training and his impatience to press on with all speed made him an unreliable surveyor , and there were those who impugned the veracity of his hair-raising escapes ; but in energy and resourcefulness , in courage and power of endurance , he was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers . |
| 10 | TEST audiences hated the ending to comic Eddie Murphy 's latest movie , so Disney Pictures paid him an extra £500,000 to shoot another . |
| 11 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 12 | He was knighted in 1945 and in 1953 the American Meteorological Association elected him an honorary member . |
| 13 | J. B. Priestley 's celebration of the ‘ little holiday steamers ’ which ‘ snatched glory out of defeat ’ at Dunkirk gained him an enormous radio audience . |
| 14 | His increasing climbing experience plus his renowned strength and stamina made him an obvious choice for the first New Zealand expedition to the Himalaya in 1951 . |
| 15 | He was only eight when Bruce Lee , whose 1973 film Enter the Dragon made him an international star , died mysteriously aged 32 . |
| 16 | The apparently unbridgeable gulf between him and his contemporaries in terms of sheer footballing skill made him an exceptional and enormously wealthy black man , after a childhood spent amidst the poverty and squalor of Bauru ( see Pelé and Fish , 1977 ) . |
| 17 | The guard found him an empty compartment and locked the door . |
| 18 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 19 | He was president of the British Mycological Society ( 1927 ) and the Association of Economic Biologists ( 1928–9 ) , and in 1938 , the University of Aberdeen awarded him an honorary LLD . |
| 20 | Later joining the intelligence corps , his attachment to Special Operations Executive in German-occupied north-west Greece and afterwards with the British Information Service in Athens gave him an abiding affection for and an understanding of the Hellenic scene . |
| 21 | Heather gave him an affectionate grin and held out a small white porcelain swan . |
| 22 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |
| 23 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |
| 24 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 25 | Pooley shot him an anxious look . |
| 26 | He said nothing more and Maggie shot him an intrigued look . |
| 27 | Maggie shot him an impatient glance . |
| 28 | While he was Archbishop of York both the ancient universities made him an honorary doctor . |
| 29 | He filled this post and served his fellow deaf with such distinction that Archbishop Ramsay appointed him an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1966 . |
| 30 | If Philiphaugh was a mark in Craigbarnet 's favour with the Montrose interest , and his ancestor 's service with the Great Marquis deserved reward , his own participation in the 1715 Rising and his continuing Jacobitism made him an undesirable ally for a Whig politician like Montrose . |