Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial of the novel 's title promises withheld meaning , and is therefore more appropriate than Pynchon 's original title for the novel ( World on a String ) , but the absurdity of Stencil 's activities disqualifies him as an analyst of a hidden principle in modern history , signalled melodramatically as the ‘ Ultimate Plot which Has No Name ’ . |
| 2 | ROY KEANE last night revealed he will hold off Nottingham Forest 's attempts to tie him to a new long-term contract . |
| 3 | He was amused by Claire 's attempts to introduce him to attractive women . |
| 4 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 5 | Many of Richard Gough 's contemporaries provided him with information about a wide range of cousins and about ancestors going back several generations . |
| 6 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 7 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 8 | Extraordinary revenues derived from the general obligation of the King 's subjects to aid him in times of emergency . |
| 9 | One of Nogai 's brothers slapped him on the shoulder , but Burun shouted , ‘ Which target were you aiming at , Nogai ? ’ |
| 10 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 11 | Yet if he , just a man , could not find it in his heart to condemn his brother or the boy who had used his brother 's weaknesses to lure him to his death , how could this God of love of his childhood destroy so savagely and so arbitrarily ? |
| 12 | Faced with a loss of income , General Seri 's officers attacked him in leaflets and graffiti . |
| 13 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 14 | Huddersfield 's winger Billy Smith was felled on the edge of ( some said just outside ) the area , and he drove the ball home from the spot , despite the goalkeeper 's efforts to distract him by jumping up and down . |
| 15 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 16 | The elections had originally been scheduled for January 1990 and then postponed to Feb. 18 when they were abandoned soon after polling started upon the observation of irregularities , and Djohar 's rivals accused him of vote-rigging . |
| 17 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |
| 18 | John Browne 's neighbours buried him at the gable-end of his humble cottage . |
| 19 | One important theoretical issue arises from this : Cable 's arguments compel him on occasion to scan lines yielding more syllables than the spelling might indicate ( p. 79 ) , and he does confess to an " agnosticism " concerning the status of " the text " . |
| 20 | Locke 's friends commended him for demolishing Proast 's ecclesiastical regime as effectively as he had the absolutist civil polity of Sir Robert Filmer [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | Qh5 where I expected White 's threats to grant him at least adequate compensation for the two sacrificed pieces , an assessment borne out by post-mortem analysis . |
| 22 | But Mr Arafat 's critics accuse him of acting like a dictator by forcing his wishes on the Palestinian movement . |
| 23 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 24 | Coetzee 's men lured him across the South African border and shot him . |
| 25 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 26 | Koons 's admirers compare him to Salvador Dali . |
| 27 | Some of Pugachev 's followers identified him as the true Tsar , Peter III . |
| 28 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 29 | RELATIONS between the British Medical Association and Kenneth Clarke , the Secretary of State for Health , reached a fresh low last night , as doctors ' leaders accused him of appearing to renege on promises that patients ' drugs would not be cash-limited under the Government 's National Health Service plans . |