Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] him [prep] [art] " 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 regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 6 | The President called him into the room . |
| 7 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 8 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 9 | The boy fixed him with a final look , but said no more , and slipped away into the crowd , only turning back once more . |
| 10 | Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach . |
| 11 | His blue sash marked him as a Hearthware , and his face was red with heat and wine . |
| 12 | Had Dane told him about the weekend in Glenshee ? |
| 13 | Had Hendrique warned him at the beginning about the current intensifying when crossing the colour boundary the game might already have been over . |
| 14 | The Rump Parliament appointed him to a special commission to overhaul naval and customs administration , to the second high court of justice , to the post of check inwards at the London customs , and to the Hale commission on law reform . |
| 15 | If it failed , there would be no mercy shown him by the enraged Executioner . |
| 16 | The Public Prosecutor called him like a dog as he strode towards the door behind which a continuous threatening murmur could be heard . |
| 17 | The jury convicted him on the counts of theft , but by directions of the recorder returned no verdict on the section 15(1) count . |
| 18 | Where a defendant in the face of evidence that a woman demonstrated lack of consent , alleges belief in consent on the basis of information given him by a third party , he may well , whether expressly or impliedly , be appealing to the idea of female masochism . |
| 19 | That effort marked him as a classic possible and his work on the gallops leaves no doubt in my mind that he has trained on and can dispose of Azhar on his way to better things . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Later his mother apprenticed him to a lithographic printer . |
| 22 | The cliff face protected him from the Eel above . |