Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 3 | On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington . |
| 4 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 5 | The President called him into the room . |
| 6 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 7 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 8 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 9 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 10 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 11 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 12 | If it failed , there would be no mercy shown him by the enraged Executioner . |
| 13 | The jury convicted him on the counts of theft , but by directions of the recorder returned no verdict on the section 15(1) count . |
| 14 | Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 15 | The possibility fascinated him from the beginning , from the moment Mr Evans walked into the kitchen while they were having breakfast their first morning and bared those loose teeth in what he probably thought was a smile . |
| 16 | The cliff face protected him from the Eel above . |