Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 2 | Billy 's been brilliant because we 've had him on an album-by-album deal , and he could have jumped ship , but he 's been really loyal . ’ |
| 3 | I have provided him with an adjustable heartbeat of around 100 . ’ |
| 4 | At one level Jamaica had provided him with an intense visual experience . |
| 5 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 6 | And yet the reluctance of the villagers to discuss Rose 's unexplained death had lured him like an irresistible hint of treasure . |
| 7 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 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 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 10 | But he was sitting where we 'd left him beside an empty biscuit tin . |
| 11 | Urban 's pro-French foreign policy during the Thirty Years War had left him in an exposed position when Richelieu joined forces with Protestant Sweden to thwart the restoration of Catholicism in Germany . |
| 12 | The angry look on the judge 's sallow face showed that either his attendance in court that morning or Cranston 's arrival had put him in an ill humour . |
| 13 | Under the old system , the Leader of the PLP would be seen to enjoy the confidence of that body because it had elected him through an exhaustive ballot . |