Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Called ‘ Robben Ford & Blue Line ’ ( GRS 11022 ) , it looks likely to gain him the even higher profile as a soloist he so richly deserves . |
| 2 | Mr Wilson says this gave him a different approach as well as a wider experience of business . |
| 3 | Centralizing revenue collection and publishing the empire 's accounts had won Reitern the respect of financial experts , but had not done much to earn him the applause of the community at large . |
| 4 | It seemed imperative to tell him the truth . |
| 5 | I said it 've been better if we 'd all gave him a , a half a day 's gardening |
| 6 | But the cost of the new sails will , in fact , be met by Conner 's sponsors , who seemed reluctant to back him a year ago . |
| 7 | Finally she returned to the information desk where she 'd first encountered him the previous day , and found a pretty young woman sitting there stacking up guide books on Dublin . |
| 8 | When the coughing stopped again , he signalled Myeloski to give him the pad and pencil . |
| 9 | The all-round skill of Ken Macmaster helped him open up a lead of 14–8 , 17–11 , 19–14 against star bowler Ken Lamb to win 2019 to secure him a quarter-final spot . |
| 10 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 11 | He might have saved her from Jem , but did that give him the right to such a ruthless inquisition ? |
| 12 | Nor did this do him the least harm in his relations with the police . |
| 13 | I think this gave him a bit of heart . |
| 14 | And because I was drunk and ca n't remember anything about my ordeal , does that give him the right to do what he did to me ? |
| 15 | ‘ Does that make him the murderer ? ’ whispered Alice in an aside to Alfred . |
| 16 | But he had seen it at once , when Berdichev had first shown him the Aristotle File . |
| 17 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 18 | Tom handed him a towel and after he had dried himself and had his hair rubbed and combed and had put his pyjamas on , he sat down on the pouffe by the armchair while Tom sat ready to tell him a story . |