Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 2 | Cos you remember last week we accounted for er He was in the world , and although the world was made through him the world did not recognize him . |
| 3 | Such is the notion uncritically entertained in the Alliance Report : competing candidates of the same party would make clear their differences on policy issues , and on the balanced slate so presented to him the voter would pick and choose . |
| 4 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 5 | But I do remember that when we were growing up , Mother never talked about him the way she does now . ’ |
| 6 | The next day Neville Chamberlain called and rehearsed with him the defence which Hoare proposed to make to the House of Commons on Thursday , the 19th . |
| 7 | Mr Beckenham looked down upon him from his superior height and handed to him the lady 's portmanteau . |
| 8 | A group of senior Spencer Stuart consultants raised with him the possibility of a sale to the consulting staff instead . |
| 9 | He had gone with Richard on crusade and had shared with him the hazards of the perilous journey home . |
| 10 | Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions . |
| 11 | He had brought with him the Bishop of Durham , which was mandatory , and which of course Thorfinn had matched by bringing Malduin , flashing an expensive ring of unknown provenance . |
| 12 | But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife . |
| 13 | A relieved Russian establishment conferred upon him the title of ‘ the Blessed ’ . |
| 14 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 15 | Neville , however , pressed on him the support in the country that he would bring to such an administration and the effect it would have in restoring confidence . |
| 16 | Neville , however , pressed on him the support in the country that he would bring to such an administration , and the effect it would have in restoring confidence . |
| 17 | And further , he said that it was his determination to see me again , to persuade me to live with him , that had streng-thened in him the desire to go on living , a desire that had been weak since the death of Montaine . |
| 18 | They described him as the " enemy of all chastity " and ascribed to him the intention of founding an abbey of prostitutes in which the offices of abbess , prioress and so on would be distributed according to the professional skill of the inmates . |
| 19 | US sources in London insist that Mr Clinton has put behind him the resentment over Conservative involvement in the US election . |
| 20 | Thus on the eve of the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool in May 1945 , which he hurried back from America to attend , Attlee called on Churchill at Downing Street and discussed with him the possibility of maintaining the coalition for a further period . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , he is unable to respond himself as he is away from the office filming at present , but we have discussed with him the requests you make in your letter . |
| 22 | As the armies of general Windischgrätz approached , parliament retired to the eastern town of Debrecen where Kossuth made the declaration of Hungarian independence , having taken with him the regalia of St Stephen , founder of the Hungarian state . |
| 23 | What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood . |
| 24 | This was partly the result of an upbringing that had instilled in him the belief that it was wrong to say unkind things about people behind their backs ; indeed , a lack of verbal malice , and a determination to try always to see the best in people , is one of his qualities . |
| 25 | He may have a brief with correspondence numbering two or three hundred letters delivered to him the night , or two nights , before the case begins , and all the facts must be mastered before he goes into court . |
| 26 | If because risk had passed to him the buyer has to bear some loss , it follows that he is not excused from carrying out the contract . |
| 27 | As people bustled around him the Doctor had harangued them frantically with all the strength that was left to him . |
| 28 | In some senses you know when it happens to a male student , he is not he does n't have confirmed for him the sense that he is only a sexual object and that this is yet more of the way in which he is always perceived . |
| 29 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 30 | Berenson 's wife Mary , who had fallen in love with Scott , obtained from him the commission to remodel I Tatti . |