Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 2 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 3 | Densil 's mum let him a room . |
| 4 | And Joanne 's seeing through his disguise made him a bit wary . |
| 5 | yeah and er , the , the programme condemned him a bit , basically he he did n't , there was , there was , he did n't seemed to take in a lo , a whole lot evidence from either side , you know , he did , he did , he did n't seemed to handle the case very well , it was sort of more like it just get it over with quickly and forget it sort of thing . |
| 6 | Charlie 's hearing was fully restored a week later and a smile appeared on his lips for the first time when he saw Grace standing by his side pouring him a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Annie left him , and then , pregnant , offered herself in order to saddle him with someone else 's child — and this when he had just received a telegram awarding him a scholarship to Oxford . |
| 8 | The faint glow from a street light showed him the outline of a hedge , neat flower beds , a black oblong of lawn . |
| 9 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 10 | Alyssia opened her mouth to give him a piece of her mind at this further show of arrogance — in fact , to give him the sack , because his mere presence here implied that he was working for her father , and so , in an indirect manner , for herself — but he did n't allow her the chance . |
| 11 | The wind hit him the moment he left the vehicle , a ferocious gust off the nearby sea which nearly lifted him off his feet . |
| 12 | In his words , he ‘ sold ’ himself to the Norwich City Football Club , persistently going to the training ground when aged 14 and 15 , until the club offered him an apprentice 's contract . |
| 13 | The youngster 's inclusion in the side earned him the name ‘ Boy Bastin' , as seventeen-year-olds in League football were much scarcer than now , and Bastin was in a class of his own with the fierceness of his shot , as a teaser of defences and as an expert penalty-taker . |
| 14 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 15 | His blade lent him power beyond mortal reckoning ; the eternal flame gave him the strength to use it . |
| 16 | The Association awarded him a medal of honour in 1989 . |
| 17 | Aware of this , he spins on his back in the manner of a break dancer and the spin gives him the momentum to strike at the legs of the attacker . |
| 18 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 19 | Like Wilson , Nixon believed that his national mandate gave him a legitimacy that the legislature lacked , a body that was , ‘ cumbersome , undisciplined , isolationist , fiscally irresponsible , overly vulnerable to pressures from organized minorities , and too dominated by the media ’ . |
| 20 | The imp gave him a kind but pitying look . |
| 21 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 22 | Benedict settled his own needs and the lawyer gave him a draft on Lady Merchiston 's bankers . |
| 23 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 24 | On 1 November 1990 , Norwich Union wrote to the applicant telling him the effect of the intervention notice , and saying : |
| 25 | Ramsey 's college refused him a research fellowship . |
| 26 | There , a former customer of the plaintiffs gave evidence that he had met the defendant in the street and mentioned to him that he had heard he had set up his own business and wanted the defendant to cut him a suit . |
| 27 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 28 | There , his quick and brilliant mind gained him a degree in electrical engineering and a well defined career path with the Texas Instruments and Teledyne Geotech companies , with whom he was to make his not inconsiderable input to NASA 's Apollo Space Programme . |
| 29 | ‘ My husband is n't well , ’ I said , having no mind to hand him the truth at that moment . |
| 30 | The COBRA man 's computer told him the whereabouts of every Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Constable in Great Britain . |