Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 2 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 3 | The defensive headers of the tall , red-haired Roberts soon made him a familiar figure at Highbury , and he was the first defending centre-half to earn the name ‘ policeman ’ or ‘ stopper ’ . |
| 4 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |
| 5 | Although Patrick Lundy was almost twenty , Katherine still considered him a child and treated him accordingly , and often it was easier to go along with her rather than risk an argument . |
| 6 | His paintings of Spain also made him an apt choice of artist for V. S. Pritchett 's The Spanish Temper ( 1954 ) and for Cedric Salter 's Introducing Spain ( 1953 ) for which he reworked an earlier drawing of Alicante . |
| 7 | Paul Merton instantly fixes him a hard stare , saying nothing , before slowly pronouncing , ‘ You 're Bamber Gascoigne are n't you ? ’ |
| 8 | The issues of repentance and forgiveness feature here also — Rodolpho , even at the last moment , is prepared to accept the blame for what Eddie has done and offers to kiss his hand , and Beatrice also offers him an earlier chance of redemption by asking him and Catherine to make friends and Catherine agrees — but Eddie refuses . |
| 9 | Mr Steel merely gave him a black labrador puppy . |
| 10 | Sara silently handed him the ingredients he wanted and found the mustard pot . |
| 11 | Indeed , sometimes killing can end a deadlock or cut short suffering , and I think that this happened in Eddie' case — he would have lived an isolated and miserable life had he not been killed , so Marco almost did him a favour . |
| 12 | Bill upstairs calls him a pillock Corrinne ! |
| 13 | So when Manchester United boss Alex Ferguson hastily gave him a free transfer to Spain 's Sporting Gijon more than three years ago , you 'd have bet that the battered Irishman would have slipped quietly out of the limelight . |
| 14 | And would Feargal now give him the third degree ? |
| 15 | Mr Anderson therefore gave him the Hailing Ferry in perpetuity and set him up in a shed selling chandlery to the barge owners . |