Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other gentleman to whom I referred , Mr. Williams , was deported some little while ago , it being cheaper to deport him than prosecute him for the gross fraud that he has perpetrated against the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 3 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 4 | The elder has been in Normandy for four years now , Stephen can hardly count him as the staunch supporter he used to be . ’ |
| 5 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 6 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 7 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 8 | Another band encircled him from the left , two massive arms had him from behind , his feet were lifted from the ground . |
| 9 | She never invited him to the jolly ones . |
| 10 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 11 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 12 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 13 | Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 . |
| 14 | A family connection with the lord chancellor , John , Baron Somers [ q.v. ] , drew him to the Whig side in politics , but he was no slavish follower of a party . |
| 15 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 16 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 17 | Brian refused to reveal who had approached him about the royal job . |
| 18 | Maisie snorted and , following the sound of his voice , traced him to the wooden bench . |
| 19 | Yesterday , sentencing Ferguson , Sheriff Colin MacKay described him as the prime mover . |
| 20 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 21 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 22 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 23 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 24 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 25 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 26 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 27 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 28 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 29 | He tried to break free , but he could not ; there were too many of them , manhandling him along the narrow jetty . |
| 30 | In the early hours of Thursday morning , the murderer skewered him to the wooden floor of a refreshment hut . |