Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 2 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 3 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 4 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 5 | His insistence that our sun should be preeminent also predisposed him toward the belief that previously invisible stars , now revealed by Galileo 's telescope , had been too small rather than too distant to be seen . |
| 6 | SUN man Paul Welford has reported him to the police , and Flashman said : ‘ If people want to do that , then fair enough . |
| 7 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 8 | I 've quizzed him about the noise , but he says he 's never heard it — well of course he has n't , he 's fast asleep ! |
| 9 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 10 | It was barely four months since Randolph Fields had first approached him with the idea of starting an airline . |
| 11 | The man had approached him on the street while he was walking home , head down against the wind . |
| 12 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 13 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 14 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 15 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 16 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 17 | He said his mother , Eva , who is Irish , had reminded him of the Klan 's history of persecuting Catholics . |
| 18 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |
| 19 | She , in turn , wondered why they could not understand that she loved their father and had rescued him from a life of solitude . |
| 20 | ‘ a very long boy , with a very little head , and an open mouth of disproportionate capacity ’ , devotedly attached to Betty Higden who has rescued him from the workhouse in which he has been brought up , having been a foundling child . |
| 21 | It had been Intelligence 's own Self Inflicted Wound that had lifted him from the status of a policeman to that of a ranking diplomat . |
| 22 | Why , she wondered , when she had effectively let him off the hook ? |
| 23 | They should never have let him into the RAF — ca n't think why they did n't spot it . |
| 24 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 25 | PETER MARSHALL 's double-handed style has carried him to the top of the British rankings , and many observers were looking to this week 's British Open Championship at Wembley Conference Centre to provide proof of his potential at world level . |
| 26 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 27 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 28 | Deputy 's free and I 've booked him for the launch |
| 29 | Curiously , Branson did not dislike McLaren — Malcolm 's transparently roguish charm made him hard to dislike — but he had never trusted him from the day they had first shaken hands in Leslie Hill 's office and McLaren had failed to arrive at the Virgin offices ; failed to keep his promise . |
| 30 | The Traverse Theatre had been born in the Grass Market in 1962 and that , together with his involvement in the Edinburgh Festival , had sucked him into a travelling show of poets , writers , actors , directors , and hype-merchants from across the western — and sometimes eastern world . |