Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The guard found him an empty compartment and locked the door . |
| 32 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 33 | He could see very little , but the sound of their laughter told him a whole group of workmen had crept up on him while he was hugging the yard wall , fearful of the big Great Dane . |
| 34 | When he was at school another boy told him the Chinese see a rabbit in the moon . |
| 35 | A museum paid him a four-figure sum for it . |
| 36 | He looked up , and the flickering torchlight showed him a vaulted cavern-roof innocent of tooling by men . |
| 37 | This is my 23-month-old granddaughter giving her fond father a real smacker to wish him a happy birthday — they say there 's nothing quite like a baby 's love ! |
| 38 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 39 | On 8 March 1991 the council sent him a standard form letter in terms reflecting those of sections 64 and 65 . |
| 40 | I 'm not a psychologist , but I read , and I would say that attitude gives him a colossal arrogance . |
| 41 | daft anyway and nine times out of ten you 've got to look at him and speak to him and that because he ca n't understand and er bloke gave him the verbal . |
| 42 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 43 | From 1743 until his death , Davies was the undisputed leader of the Pembrokeshire Methodists : his power as a preacher ( a power not discernible in his only printed sermon , Llais y Priodfab , 1768 ) , his standing as an ordained clergyman , and his financial independence gave him a rare combination of spiritual and social advantages . |
| 44 | MERCY killing doctor Nigel Cox walked free yesterday when a judge gave him a suspended 12-month prison sentence . |
| 45 | Only Father Kolbe remained alive until a bored guard gave him a fatal injection of carbolic acid . |
| 46 | But here Balboa 's persuasive charm did him no good : a Chief Torecha , leader of a tribe of mountain Caribs , set about defending his lands , and there was a brief and bloody battle which the Spaniards ( hardly surprisingly ) won . |
| 47 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |
| 48 | The girl gave him an undisclosed amount of cash and he hurried out . |
| 49 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 50 | His mark on the last test gave him a final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 51 | No give but his mark on his last test gave him the final average of fourteen marks for X plus two tests . |
| 52 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 53 | Topaz gave him a withering glance . |
| 54 | The marquis 's voice had softened and for the first time Topaz gave him a wide smile . |
| 55 | When he came to Arsenal , James told Chapman in no uncertain terms that he did n't like his plan to make him a scheming inside-forward . |
| 56 | Butler 's earnest sincerity made him a popular hero and leader , especially among the oil-field workers , but despite its success in the elections his radical minority party was not invited onto the Executive Council by the Governor . |
| 57 | Both the scale of his operations and the degree of his specialization in financial business made him a unique figure in early Stuart England , though he did have a few other economic irons in the fire : among them , a share in the tobacco monopoly and the export of iron ordnance in the 1620s and huge purchases of East India Company pepper in 1623 and 1628 . |
| 58 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 59 | Only Waylon Jennings wears a cowboy hat , but Willie Nelson 's bandana and grey pony-tail make him an obvious Indian scout , Johnny Cash wears the frock-coat of a gambler and Kris Kristofferson 's cut-off T-shirt suggests his pardners will be calling him ‘ Junior ’ well into his sixties . |
| 60 | The prince said he would do so only at the head of an army of 60,000 men ; the parlement pronounced him a contumacious vassal , and sentenced him to loss of the duchy . |