Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | This week , the ageing lothario was horrified when a cloth-capped pensioner pursued him down a street , wreathed in smiles and waving an autograph book , The Rolling Stone coldly ignored him , appalled at being associated with a gummy grandad and perhaps being all too forcibly reminded of his own advancing years . |
| 3 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 4 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 5 | Defeat entered him like a heart attack , stunning the centre of his system . |
| 6 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
| 7 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 8 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 9 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 10 | A pale blue light puzzled him for a moment , until he realised that it was the Calor gas stove in the galley . |
| 11 | Sorrel watched him for a few seconds , then snatched it out of his hands and stuck it in her mouth . |
| 12 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 13 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 14 | Although Pond praised him as a ‘ middle-class Englishman … the personification of all their sterling traits and sturdy characteristics ’ , there were problems over whether or not he should have taken a fee for giving a eulogy on his friend , Henry Ward Beecher , at Beecher 's Brooklyn church . |
| 15 | CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 . |
| 16 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
| 17 | His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up . |
| 18 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 19 | A 16-YEAR-OLD boy who fired a catapult at a low-flying Sri Lankan air force helicopter yesterday was wounded when the copter 's gunner mistook him for a Tamil terrorist and shot back at him . |
| 20 | Some treated Charles Manson as a hero , and the underground newspaper , the Los Angeles Free Press allowed Manson to write a column for them while he was in jail ; another , called Tuesday 's Child depicted him on a cross . |
| 21 | In 1954 the publishing firm Methuen approached him for a Christmas card , as did the National Marriage Guidance Council , the latter printing 6,700 copies of his design . |
| 22 | The burning midday sun roused him from a feverish sleep . |
| 23 | A torn hamstring in his final training session consigned him to a seat in the stand in the Olympic Stadium , but with Barcelona on the horizon he 's hungry for the big stage again . |
| 24 | As the child subjected him to a solemn , no-nonsense appraisal , Ashley 's heart began to hammer behind her ribs . |
| 25 | A third ad showed him in a bathrobe seated cross-legged on a chair in a tropical tableau flanked man , hugging two freshly-scrubbed pigs . |
| 26 | The old lady acknowledged him with a nod . |
| 27 | ‘ Sir William the Good ’ , an Indian called him in a farewell tribute . |
| 28 | Even in a ‘ sweep ’ movie [ see 5 ] like The Last Emperor , O'Toole 's Law deprived him of a Best Supporting nomination . |
| 29 | Communist party orthodoxy presented him with a unique opportunity to voice his frustration and anger . |
| 30 | TV STAR Leslie Crowther went home for Christmas dinner yesterday two months after a road crash left him in a coma . |