Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 2 | Hypnotherapy helped steer him through these squalls towards the final harmony that he should achieve before the final crowning implant of the Black Carapace . |
| 3 | On this great day , when he cut the ribbon on a shop built to remind him of the Italian department stores of his childhood — ‘ they always had a restaurant , because part of the treat of shopping was lunching out ’ — he was so happy and relaxed that it was easy to swallow inhibitions and ask him whether he was n't bothered about being known , through the films he has chosen to dress , as the creator of designer violence . |
| 4 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 5 | Alfred McTear , 48 , has contracted pneumonia and was unable to start giving evidence yesterday to the commission appointed to hear him before the full legal hearing , which may be two years away . |
| 6 | Marco has been brought up by his rather in a way designed to fit him for the future . |