Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [vb pp] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Liu Chang had lied to him , or had given him a signal which would tip Herrick off … |
| 2 | But he 's prepared to be judged on the kind of material that has made him a television star . |
| 3 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
| 4 | But now he 's back on the track chasing the appearance money that has earned him a detached house in the Surrey stockbroker belt of Lightwater . |
| 5 | But there is one inflammatory comment that has guaranteed him an FA rap . |
| 6 | Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit . |
| 7 | The one Masklin had found in the Store , the one that had given him the idea for driving the Truck . |
| 8 | He nodded over at the coat that had cost him an arm and a leg . |
| 9 | ‘ There is another point , Dr. Briant , ’ Kegan said hastily , regretting the self-indulgence that had allowed him the dig at Briant . |
| 10 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 11 | ( Restaurants , page 278 ) began writing as soon as he could form the letters and was first published as a poet , although it is his novels that have made him a household name . |
| 12 | The constable had responded to Joinville 's requests débonairement et … en bon manere , and had given him a knight as an escort who ‘ by his ordinance and advice expedited affairs débonairement' . |
| 13 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 14 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
| 15 | Initially Edward had been prepared to augment Gloucester 's landed interest with further grants and had given him the custody and marriage of two local heirs , Henry Marney and William Walgrave . |
| 16 | Sean had been bought a replacement knife by Wainfleet and had forgiven him the theft of the first . |
| 17 | The argument raged for days , then Richard suddenly declared that he would not marry Alys because she had been his father 's mistress and had borne him a son . |
| 18 | Furthermore , Curzon 's behaviour over the fall of the Coalition was fresh in men 's minds and had made him a lot of enemies and few friends . |
| 19 | He told the doctors all about how my dad had come back to life in this grey cardigan and had told him the secrets of the universe . |
| 20 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 21 | Drinking and drunkenness are a familiar theme of his bilingual stand-up comedy acts , and have made him a cult-figure among Gaelic-speaking lounge-bar audiences in the Western Isles . |