Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From his first appearance as the languid young aristo to his final entrance as a surgical case in a wheelchair , Rupert Everett makes the character as much Harlequin as Mephistopheles , and the magnetic allure with which he endows him balances the brittle cynicism and affectation of a man who measures every word for effect . |
| 2 | J. Riley , aged 14 , started his apprenticeship on 31 July 1903 at 45 and the wage-book shows him getting the regular rises described above . |
| 3 | The eighties saw a change of label for Johnny , switching to Alligator Records and producing the album Guitar Slinger , the cover of which shows him playing the small , headless guitar he still uses today . |
| 4 | Broadly speaking , Derrida 's rigorous and far-reaching exploration of the implications of Saussure 's claim , that ‘ in language there are only differences without positive terms ’ , leads him to question the key concepts of structuralism ( in particular , sign and structure ) and its methodology ( as represented by poetics and semiology ) . |
| 5 | It is his obsession with figures that leads him to make the crucial economic mistakes that he made . |
| 6 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 7 | We fly backwards , retracing old tribal routes — dreamed up , or remembered — and into a city walled with honey-coloured stones , where the sage Hanina sends demons home to Hell with their putative tails between their legs , and where King Solomon outwits mighty Ashmodai , Duke of the Underworld , and makes him do the royal bidding like any human flunkey . |