Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 4 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 5 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 6 | He almost bustled to the far table where glasses and decanters provided him with an interval of escape from the lonely speechlessness that only Aunt Tossie understood . |
| 7 | Overall , his churches and houses are no more than pleasant provincial work — examples are the rebuilding of St Julian 's church in Shrewsbury ( 1749–50 ) and Hatton Grange , Shropshire ( 1764–8 ) — but his decorative and funerary designs reveal him as a highly competent exponent of both the rococo style and the Gothic manner of Batty Langley [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | A writer who went on a police-escorted tour of Los Angeles 's red light districts to help him with an alleged magazine article is now wanted on suspicion of strangling three prostitutes in the city , police said yesterday . |
| 9 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 10 | Once a virtuous king , whose subjects hailed him as a god , he was killed by his jealous brother Seth . |
| 11 | The May evening was warm and filled with a golden light , and as he passed the Maria-Therese gardens the scent of the lilacs hit him with an almost physical pain . |
| 12 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 13 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 14 | The Indians regarded him as a medicine man and his apple-tree enthusiasm , odd clothing and religious devotion — he distributed religious tracts torn in parts for widespread circulation — started many folktales . |
| 15 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |
| 16 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 17 | Textile workers in Bradford and Brick Lane may regard Saddam as a liberator : the metropolitan middle classes despise him as a thug . |
| 18 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 19 | When one of his own officials insulted him at a Leeds meeting Mosley knocked him unconscious . |
| 20 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 21 | Instead of barking and attacking him , though , the dogs greeted him as a friend . |
| 22 | His own studies led him towards a much-modified Congregationalism , with a threefold ministry of evangelists , pastors , and teachers . |
| 23 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 24 | David Elsworth chose this race to give Barnbrook Again his preliminary for the King George VI and the topweight winner of all his four races last season was made the 2-1 favourite , though some optimistic betting forecasts had him as a ridulous 8-1 chance . |
| 25 | Mrs Summerchild was not available last night for comment , but neighbours described him as a reserved man who was devoted to his family , and who had a passion for music . |
| 26 | Small wonder children and female passengers regarded him with an almost breathless adoration , she found herself thinking . |
| 27 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 28 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 29 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |
| 30 | Neighbours describe him as a reserved man who did n't mix much . |