Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 2 | We arranged to meet him on the early train at Skipton the next day and off he went to his bog . |
| 3 | They were ranked to meet him in the misty rain , every soul from castle and clachan , fidgeting and nervous , and in front of them all Marion Aluinn , eager to break the tense silence , lovely in her excitement . |
| 4 | Notes in Winston Churchill 's files suggested that Britain 's options were either to send a " correct " reply to the South , commiserating with him in declining to advise him , or to encourage him along the American line , or to urge him to undertake an all-out campaign against Mossadeq . |
| 5 | The press scour whole countries for a sighting of the relaxing politician , and friends who might know where he is are propositioned with both money and arguments such as ‘ I am sure you will agree that it would be better for us to find him before the Daily Mirror ’ . |
| 6 | But he says the payout ca n't begin to compensate him for the devastating effect the accident has had on his life . |
| 7 | But in the former case the plaintiff will have a capital asset in his hands , and he is only entitled to recover damages to compensate him for the additional expenditure involved . |
| 8 | In all such cases the plaintiff is entitled to damages to compensate him for the lost benefit . |
| 9 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 10 | ‘ Azadi said that I had just twenty-four hours to provide him with the exact location of the ship — or else I would be executed . |
| 11 | I have got to try to outbowl him in the early matches because there is a good chance we may go into the Tests with only one spinner . |
| 12 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 13 | He told the rector at Boston that this was a person of unusual spiritual powers ; that how to train him for the whole Church was a responsibility ; that he was anxious that these abilities should not be confined to academic spheres . |
| 14 | He did not see her at all as he got out of the car and Jenna had the chance to observe him without the dark eyes pinning her quizzically . |
| 15 | They decided to write a letter to Angel Clare , to inform him of the dangerous situation his wife was in . |
| 16 | She had to resist the temptation to underrate him , to stereotype him as the handsome , experienced seducer of cheap fiction . |
| 17 | If he wants anybody to lead him to the so-called English plotters , it 's the very best possible way to go about it . |
| 18 | Orders were sent to no fewer than four squadrons to try to engage him in the Irish Sea or , as a last resort , to intercept him off Brest on his way home ; but in the event none of them was needed for he was caught , almost by chance , near Kinsale on the southern coast of Ireland at daybreak on 29 February 1760 , by three frigates which had taken refuge there during the recent storm . |
| 19 | Smallfry always threatened to lock him in the toolshed with Rosie if ever he dared tell her secrets to anyone else . |
| 20 | I went to visit him at the Benedictine monastery at Nashdom and asked him for any insights which he could give me from his experience in Accra . |
| 21 | She prised Burton out of digs in Streatham to install him on the top floor of her house in Pelham Crescent — just a few doors down from Emlyn Williams . |
| 22 | Though the former England winger yesterday insisted he was content to remain with Leicester City , the club he joined from Darlington last summer , it is understood that moves are already underway to install him in the vacant Roker job . |
| 23 | It would be folly to replace him with the inexperienced Mr Kinnock . |
| 24 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 25 | She told me just to feed him from the other side , so I did , fully expecting my right breast to explode , but it did n't ! |
| 26 | The German and American had crossed swords on and off the track throughout 1990 and it seemed as if Bradl needed Kocinski 's ‘ presence ’ to inspire him for the final showdown . |
| 27 | Alfred McTear , 48 , has contracted pneumonia and was unable to start giving evidence yesterday to the commission appointed to hear him before the full legal hearing , which may be two years away . |
| 28 | I am going to play him in the remaining reserve games so that I can get a good look at him . |
| 29 | If Peter is actually a ‘ tough ’ whose nickname means ‘ Rocky ’ , is it not possible to equate him with the fierce individual known as Simon Zelotes or Simon the Canaanite — to equate him , that is , with Simon the Zealot ? |
| 30 | In 1984 " Union Jack " Hayward received £50,000 to console him for the untrue allegation that he was involved in a murder plot . |