Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Elliott , the Headmaster , chose Francis as one of the first pupil teachers , and in due course promoted him to the position of junior teacher at the Margate branch of the Asylum . |
| 2 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 3 | The experience in Gentle Jack and the speech that caused all the problems in that play stood him in good stead . |
| 4 | For a moment he thought there was a double meaning in her words , but he dismissed the thought when he recognised it was one of her usual openings to draw him into conversation . |
| 5 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 6 | The interim parliament condemned him for acting contrary to the peace process , and for a gross violation of basic human rights ; Johnson had given an undertaking to Sawyer that he would desist from carrying out executions , after previous killings of rebels and civilians . |
| 7 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 8 | The use of enamel , the brilliant understanding of colour , yes , that piece reminded him of Giuliano , though-the design was more subtle , less heavy . |
| 9 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 10 | Horrified by his latest intentions , they were perhaps genuinely considering a last-ditch attempt to save him from himself . |
| 11 | Harold Wilson probably underwent the most disagreeable experience of any Prime Minister in that it was regarded as respectable political tactics to traduce him on any grounds other than political . |
| 12 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 13 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 14 | It is thought that the sound of the approaching steam train and the prevailing gale prevented him from being aware of the electric train 's presence . |
| 15 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 16 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 17 | If the failed attempt to oust him from Wadham in 1654 was the work of stricter puritans who suspected him of reducing Christianity to morality , so in the 1660s his ‘ club for comprehension ’ evoked the censure of high churchmen . |
| 18 | When Adam was 9 , she took the brave decision to remove him from school because she thought he was being held back . |
| 19 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 20 | Serbian opponents accuse him of blackmail and extortion . |
| 21 | The Prince is also very keen on deer stalking , another pull to keep him in the Highlands for as long as he can manage . |
| 22 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 23 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 24 | The work was interesting and the pay was excellent , but an offer from one of his old lecturers tempted him to Bristol . |
| 25 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 26 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 27 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 28 | His graphic accounts of this experience established him as anthropology 's Conrad and gave the subject the fiercely empirical tradition which is its hallmark in Britain to this day . |
| 29 | This experience gave him at least a chance of succeeding in the Caucasus . |
| 30 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |