Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 2 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 3 | The ball soars and ploughs into some branches showers him with twigs and leaves . |
| 4 | Only a few steps brought him to within feet of her . |
| 5 | This has led some writers to place him within the interpretative tradition . |
| 6 | The Headmaster himself was an aloof and somewhat austere figure in public , betraying his emotions only twice — when he announced , on the afternoon of 11th November 1918 to the assembled school , the signing of the Armistice , and when some sixth-formers presented him with a gift to mark his marriage . |
| 7 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 8 | A few seconds brought him to the oak . |
| 9 | Some commentators regarded him as the leader of a conservative faction which had opposed the economic reformist policies of CPV general secretary Nguyen Van Linh . |
| 10 | Midge Ure was playing for nothing , just a few beers to see him through the evening . |
| 11 | Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney . |
| 12 | Both these acts brought him into conflict with the king and with some of his own clergy . |
| 13 | These journeys took him to the furthest extent of the colonies , from Lake Ontario to Virginia and into the Carolinas and Florida . |
| 14 | All these factors served him as rules for the composition of the blends . |
| 15 | Fearing that any investigation into this anti-communist network might be a prelude to his own eviction from the presidential palace , Mr Cossiga has tried to fight off all attempts to question him about Gladio . |
| 16 | All attempts to please him in any other way are mere mockery , and insults to the things by which you endeavour to do so . |
| 17 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 18 | The incident did little harm to Gunn 's career and in many respects endeared him to Scotland fans . |
| 19 | But he was far from the political revolutionary which many observers thought him to be and as adapt at cooling the passions of the men as he was at arousing them . |
| 20 | All ways to hold him for a while . |
| 21 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |
| 22 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 23 | He was not widely known , but many commentators identified him as a conservative and suggested that he was unenthusiastic about market economic reform . |
| 24 | In addition , those rivalries enabled him in peacetime to go on playing his wartime role of common denominator ; the arbiter who remained detached from conflicts of particular interests ; the provider of unity . |
| 25 | There were plate-glass windows on three sides of the office … and what Cardiff saw through those windows brought him to a halt . |
| 26 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 27 | Kubitsky was bringing his rifle to bear on a target which lay somewhere in the direction of the grove of trees on the river bank to Rostov 's rear , but before he could open fire three more arrows took him in the chest and he fell over backwards without a sound . |
| 28 | He argues that freedom of choice makes a man responsible for his actions while the capacity to reason about those choices places him under a continuing obligation to take responsibility for those actions . |
| 29 | And those loonies expect him to — ’ He cut himself off with a hard slap to the bald head . |
| 30 | ‘ We specialised in many happy social events in addition to tennis , ’ says Harold , who would like former members to contact him with a view to holding a reunion . |