Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 2 | The sight of a wounded soldier left him raw and angry . |
| 3 | And so I could not be certain whether the sight of his old home depressed him more than it inspired him . |
| 4 | A slow-witted girl drove him mad , trying to spell his name , saying himself was out on a call and the missus visiting relatives . |
| 5 | With the lack of repeated high crosses to test him last saturday , though , it remains to be seen ; but the signs are good . |
| 6 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 7 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 8 | The compromise of an extendible lead gives him some freedom to wander but it does give rise to ‘ incidents ’ . |
| 9 | The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings . |
| 10 | He was rather vague about that , so my Hon. Friend asked him more questions . |
| 11 | But he will have cause to resent his treatment by campaign organisers given Mr Kinnock 's unequivocal pledge to appoint him Foreign Secretary in a Labour government . |
| 12 | In 1898 Irving 's fortunes began to fail , and the consequent collapse of Stoker 's theatrical career left him dependent on his writings . |
| 13 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 14 | In fact , the anomalous status gave him greater leeway . |
| 15 | His lively personality won him many well-wishers at the time and those fans did n't forget him on his birthday . |
| 16 | Chartered towns paid him annual rents , known as fee-farms , in return for their privileges . |
| 17 | Ludovico had all the confidence of the good-looking young man who knows that his charm and social position make him welcome everywhere . |
| 18 | Coming from a strong military background and dealing with an alcoholic mother taught him self-reliance at an early age . |
| 19 | As we noted earlier , one of the reasons why Franco ultimately revised his former anti-western attitudes was that the crisis of economic autarchy left him little choice . |
| 20 | He has agreed to pay us more than our usual commission — well , I explained , of course , that we would need ample compensation to lend him one of our girls for such unusual services , and I must say — ’ |
| 21 | The older , more conservative generation of Japanese businessmen finds him brash . |
| 22 | The sore , bruised , aching feeling makes him restless ; always having to change position . |
| 23 | Sununu 's abrasive and often arrogant personal style won him few friends during his three-year tenure at the White House . |
| 24 | Miller 's partiality for flowering shrubs is evident throughout his writing and among them perhaps the versatile roses offered him greatest scope : he appreciated the many aspects of this genus and he understood how they might be best displayed . |
| 25 | Marchbank , the designer later of Friends and Time Out , and one-time Oz editor , was also later to become a great friend of Miles , but the early It left him unimpressed . |
| 26 | for Lewes in 1741 as a nominee of the Duke of Newcastle ; unfortunately the death of his wife the following year drove him mad and he died in 1743 after a series of suicide attempts . |
| 27 | This new sense of topographical security left him free to explore theories about art , the novel in particular , and see his writing as more than ‘ mere journeywork ’ . |
| 28 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 29 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 30 | His electrifying speed earned him seven international caps for Scotland as a wing three-quarter . |