Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 2 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 3 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 4 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 5 | But his hyperactive personality has also made him an easy subject for parody . |
| 6 | He has some obsession she has n't told him the whole truth . ’ |
| 7 | His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect . |
| 8 | he has two sons and two daughters , one of whom has recently made him a grandad and , although he confesses to still having the odd game of cricket , his main pastime nowadays is deep-sea fishing . |
| 9 | Unlike the Beggar , the friend does return once , looks over Hoccleve 's work ( a translation from the Gesta Romanorum ) , and goes home to fetch him a better copy , including the moralising of the tale which Hoccleve 's copy lacks , and which he immediately begins to translate . |
| 10 | It is often said that unfettered insider dealing does not hurt shareholders ; that insiders ' profits are not outsiders ' losses , but rather evidence of a more efficient allocation of resources ; Just because an investor does not make as much money on the sale of his shares as he would otherwise have done , does not make him a victim in the true sense , as nothing has been stolen from him . |
| 11 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 12 | In 1915 , Grand Admiral von Tirpitz confided to his diary : ‘ The Kaiser does not give him a chance . ’ |
| 13 | When Michel Rocard was replaced by Edith Cresson on 15 May 1991 , his official letter of resignation made it clear that President Mitterrand had asked him to resign , even though the constitution does not give him the right ( the President is responsible for ‘ nominating ’ the Prime Minister and for approving the Cabinet , but not for dismissing him ) . |
| 14 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 15 | An order for specific performance is one which requires the seller actually to deliver the goods and does not give him the option of paying damages instead . |
| 16 | He had one bad game for England but that does n't make him a bad player . ’ |
| 17 | Even so , it does n't make him a bad man . ’ |
| 18 | This subject does n't give him a chance to do so . |
| 19 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 20 | Still , she thought as she closed the door of the trophy-room , it does n't give him the right to treat me like — She bit off the dreadful word that sprang to mind . |
| 21 | Ah , , he has complained now to the Vatican that he , any more , because of , Swiss the community does n't give him the |
| 22 | She does n't call him the vet when she 's |
| 23 | well I think he likes never give him a , a chance when he 's here |
| 24 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |