Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | In 1829 , as the lad approached the age of 14 , decision time was coming ; if Benjamin had any yearning to go to sea like his brother , he seems to have kept it quiet , but there was every need to find him a safe and secure job with prospects . |
| 62 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 63 | A dragonrider handed him a long shape , wrapped in red silk . |
| 64 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |
| 65 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
| 66 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 67 | The Williams team gave him a quick change of tyres … but not quick enough to prevent Patrase and Senna fly past into the lead . |
| 68 | Norman 's seven-birdie course record gave him a one-shot lead playing the 18th , but he should have known his chance had gone with Faldo having won two Augusta titles in extra time . |
| 69 | In fact , the war gave him a new sombreness of attitude to match his stark experience of the " essential problems of life " ; and inevitably this sombreness communicated itself to his continued thinking about the problems of tragedy . |
| 70 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 71 | One wonderful story is that he decided against a career in mathematics when his teacher gave him a poor mark in an exam for answering a problem correctly but not using the method taught in class . |
| 72 | Gebrec smiled politely , but Melissa had the impression that the announcement gave him no particular pleasure . |
| 73 | He was a queer fish , but the town gave him a rough ride when they got the chance . ’ |
| 74 | Only the width of a post denied him a sensational late equaliser at Everton in the following round , and Second Division Brighton will greet his return to action with some trepidation in tonight 's second round replay . |
| 75 | His record makes him an outstanding candidate for an R Y A Award . |
| 76 | The rain brings him an end-of-time vision , solitary as his sense of humour , of flooding cellars and emerging rats . |
| 77 | The printer had become sufficiently reconciled to their presence to give him a friendly wave . |
| 78 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 79 | His intuition , subtle approach , analytical capacities and broad clinical knowledge made him a brilliant clinician ’ . |
| 80 | If Philiphaugh was a mark in Craigbarnet 's favour with the Montrose interest , and his ancestor 's service with the Great Marquis deserved reward , his own participation in the 1715 Rising and his continuing Jacobitism made him an undesirable ally for a Whig politician like Montrose . |
| 81 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 82 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 83 | Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton . |
| 84 | His wife darted him an impatient look . |
| 85 | Trainer Gordon Richards , who has sent out the veteran staying chaser to win seven times at the Lancashire track , last night confirmed him a definite starter . |
| 86 | It 's probably only that old quack Hardacre feeding him the wrong antibiotics — Agnes shared George 's view of Sir Frank ‘ — but if each course takes five days before they decide it is n't working , it can run on . |
| 87 | That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’ |
| 88 | After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick . |
| 89 | From 1661 he sat in the Cavalier Parliament for Dorset , and was in opposition under both the administration of Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] and , after 1667 , the Cabal , in which his local rival , Anthony Ashley Cooper ( later first Earl of Shaftesbury , q.v. ) , held high office ; but his stalwart churchmanship brought him an honorary DCL from his old university in 1665 . |
| 90 | Always placing one foot directly in front of the other gave him a slinking walk . |