Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WG is alleging that Alan Carr , who remained as Alkar 's chairman , overstated Alkar 's profits by anticipating payments and inflating stock , causing WG to overpay him in subsequent acquisition instalments . |
| 2 | Thereafter he quickly became its most renowned liberal member , leading some opponents to accuse him of judicial activism . |
| 3 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 4 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 5 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 6 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 7 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 8 | He began proceedings against the council in the county court alleging breach of their statutory duty and seeking an injunction ordering them to fulfil their duty to provide him with suitable accommodation and damages . |
| 9 | David was therefore offered inpatient care for up to 10 days to provide him with intensive support . |
| 10 | Chain , exasperated by the British failure to provide him with adequate research facilities , migrated to Rome , but was retained as a consultant by Beecham 's at a time when the firm was rapidly developing its research facilities . |
| 11 | Gqozo told the conference that the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) had promised to provide him with military support if the ANC again entered Ciskei [ see p. 39078-79 ] . |
| 12 | But no matter what path an observer followed , it would not be possible to provide him with stained-glass cinema . |
| 13 | But her urgency seemed to provoke him to lazy slowness . |
| 14 | But Peyton 's heroics are unlikely to lead him to European glory . |
| 15 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 16 | One girl wanted to cover him in whipped cream and honey and then slowly lick off every bit . |
| 17 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 18 | So that one day when they are sitting on their fat butts in frankfurt or Langley and some poor guy 's written seven point nine two centimetre automatic rifle instead of seven point nine two millimetre , they wo n't want to fire him for bad writing . |
| 19 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 20 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 21 | The lovely Polish mezzo Stefania Toczyska , who had three arias of her own , as well as joining Carreras in duets from Cavalleria Rusticana , Il Trovatore and Carmen , was also permitted a single encore before she quietly disappeared to leave him in sole charge . |
| 22 | On the contrary , he allowed his clergy to criticize him with astonishing freedom , as Alcuin criticized his forcible conversion of the Saxons . |
| 23 | And versatile international Joe Lydon has signed a new 12-month contract to keep him at Central Park . |
| 24 | She got up early to muck him out and groom him and exercise him , and she babysat nearly every evening to keep him in good oats ( not Uncle Knacker 's ) and shoes , and when she saw the riders she was up against in the collecting ring , with their adoring parents and their fat cheque-books , it just made her all the more determined to beat them , because determination was all she had . |
| 25 | Towards the trespasser the occupier has no duty to take reasonable care for his protection or even to protect him from concealed danger . |
| 26 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 27 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 28 | Among the writers who influenced Smith were the Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh , whose poems he liked to read aloud , and Samuel Smiles [ qq.v. ] , who may have been the first man to interest him in technical education . |
| 29 | He believed , and Irina confirmed this , that Marcus had been , though initially hostile , glad to see him at Red Cottage because he was an acquaintance and someone to talk to . |
| 30 | It seemed that the Prime Minister was unable to dismiss her Chancellor , but was unable to invest him with full confidence either . |