Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Stoker approached him with a play intended for his master , Irving , taking no thought of the devotion shown by his factotum , reacted along a scale from dismissiveness to contempt . |
| 2 | Bantam moved him from a Christmas slot to this summer place last year in an attempt to increase his sales , but this summer the horror leads appear more plentiful , making it a tougher market . |
| 3 | Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand . |
| 4 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 5 | In September 1316 Edward retained him for a very large fee in return for the promise of his service with a commensurately large retinue ; and shortly afterwards he and Pembroke set off for the papal curia on a mission which had the repeal of the Ordinances as one of its objectives . |
| 6 | The Welshman kicked the ball away and referee Dangaard dismissed him for a second bookable offence . |
| 7 | Ranulf came in with a series of plaintive questions but Corbett dismissed him with a look . |
| 8 | Ken told him about a trip he had made to Spain with a friend whom he called ‘ Milicent ’ . |
| 9 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 10 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 11 | Creed directed him to a narrow sidestreet . |
| 12 | Wizz Jones began his musical career fronting a country and skiffle band in his home town of Croydon , Surrey in 1958 , and has been an established member of the British and European acoustic folk/blues scene ever since , with artists like Eric Clapton citing him as a major influence . |
| 13 | Bede welcomed him as a new Josiah , the king of Judah in whose reign a religious reform movement purified the Temple worship , but came to lament the decline , as he saw it , of ecclesiastical standards after the death of Aldfrith , sentiments echoed later by Boniface . |
| 14 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 15 | Edward observed him with a certain bitterness ; such simplicity of need could seem enviable . |
| 16 | Johnny watched him in a daze . |
| 17 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 18 | From that moment on , the Kremlin saw him as a ‘ realistic ’ politician — in other words , as one who urged the people to accept the invasion . |
| 19 | His personal fondness for the sayings of the Reverend Swaggart marked him as a man somewhat out of step with much of the rest of the world ; a view reinforced by his apparent keenness on the suggestion of a freebooting American marine that the kingdom become a dumping-ground for spent atomic waste and noxious chemicals . |
| 20 | That being so , the Capriati 's turned to Slozil , who had been in tear when Steffi presented him with a gold watch to mark their parting after five mostly triumphant years . |
| 21 | Corbett entrusted him with a short letter in which he asked the King to supply simple answers to what Corbett considered simple questions . |
| 22 | Allen , in turn , took Coleridge to Balliol to introduce him to a young radical and poet called Robert Southey , who was then almost twenty years old . |
| 23 | ‘ Now , do n't try to change the subject , ’ Deirdre admonished him with a smile . |
| 24 | Some people said Wolsey hired him as a defence against other wizards and warlocks . |
| 25 | He was an Apostle and a prizeman , though his zeal as president of the Union condemned him to a second in part ii ( 1904 ) after a first in part i ( 1902 ) of the classical tripos . |
| 26 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Rachel 's , ’ Maria told him in a quietly biting tone , although she was still shaking inwardly . |
| 28 | So when Jane asked him for a loan , he snapped back : ‘ I think my first duty is to look after myself ! ’ |
| 29 | Riven asked him with a snap . |
| 30 | Tzann fixed him with a stern , cold gaze . |