Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 3 | On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington . |
| 4 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 5 | The President called him into the room . |
| 6 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 7 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 8 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 9 | If it failed , there would be no mercy shown him by the enraged Executioner . |
| 10 | The jury convicted him on the counts of theft , but by directions of the recorder returned no verdict on the section 15(1) count . |
| 11 | The possibility fascinated him from the beginning , from the moment Mr Evans walked into the kitchen while they were having breakfast their first morning and bared those loose teeth in what he probably thought was a smile . |
| 12 | The cliff face protected him from the Eel above . |