Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] him the " in BNC.

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1 Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy .
2 A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle .
3 Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions .
4 A relieved Russian establishment conferred upon him the title of ‘ the Blessed ’ .
5 could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life .
6 He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery .
7 The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day .
8 He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire .
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