Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] him [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 2 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 3 | The employer will have a contract with the person who sold him the equipment and will probably be able to recoup his losses through a contract action . |
| 4 | He became lord lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 1612 and his punctilious implementation of orders from the Privy Council impressed the king , who made him a knight of the Garter in 1624 . |
| 5 | He tends to join the Leicester ladies , who mother him a bit … is that what you want to know ? ’ |
| 6 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 7 | He praised his wife Wyn who visited him every day and held his hand as he was treated in three different hospitals . |
| 8 | There were those who found him an oddity and some who were repelled by his right-wing and reactionary views . |
| 9 | He conquered one of Europe 's toughest courses , the tour 's strongest field and the critics who labelled him a loser with his sudden-death triumph over Colin Montgomerie , elevating him back among the world 's leading players . |
| 10 | Moses appeals to God , who shows him a shrub growing at the spot . |
| 11 | He watched the sun rise over the snowy fields , and on his way home he met the postman , who handed him a letter . |
| 12 | Quinn , meanwhile , joined Coventry with a good luck message from the boss who showed him the door at St James ' Park . |
| 13 | He had , now , friends in many places , or people who owed him a favour . |
| 14 | A police inspector in Scotland Yard who owed him a favour — a slight matter of some indiscreet letters — had supplied him with a list of known criminals in Dublin , as well as a separate listing of all known Republican sympathizers . |
| 15 | He asked a policeman who owed him a favour that he wanted no-one to know about . |
| 16 | At the battle , Jack is saved by Younger Bear ( Carl Bellini ) , who owed him a life from childhood . |
| 17 | ‘ It was Francis 's father , apparently , who taught him a lot of tum-te-tum poetry . |
| 18 | He was unrecognizable at this distance , but the woman who followed him a moment later only had to take a couple of steps for Pascoe to know that this was Gwen Evans again . |
| 19 | Someone else who loved him every bit as much as she did . |
| 20 | According to another version of events , Mozart was visited by a ‘ mysterious stranger ’ who offered him the commission on behalf of an anonymous patron , producing the initial fee immediately . |
| 21 | As for his former wife , Aahmes , she had become a shadowy figure who sent him a letter from the Delta every new year , at the midsummer opet festival , with news of his favourite son , Heby . |
| 22 | Harry Lucas was to all of us who knew him a mentor , a tutor and avuncular friend . |
| 23 | His household accounts reveal an attachment to robust and expensive pleasures : £5 went to pay his card debts ; £2.13s. 4d. to a man who brought him a lion ; £30 to a young damsel who danced . |
| 24 | Carleton built up a sizeable estate in the eastern and midland counties , partly by inheritance , partly through the second of his three marriages , to Elizabeth Mohun , a Northamptonshire widow who brought him the manor of Overstone , where he mostly resided . |
| 25 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
| 26 | LITTLE battler Matthew Costen is going home in triumph — after defying doctors who gave him a fortnight to live . |
| 27 | Recently Colin became friends with a bona fide shaman , Davide , who gave him a dose of ‘ ayahuasca ’ . |
| 28 | After the war , a doctor who gave him a check-up ( incredibly enough not recognising him ) remarked : ‘ One can see that you were n't in the war . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 30 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |