Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 2 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 3 | Now he worked in offices of the Gas Board , and was studying accountancy , mostly at night , though the Board gave him one day off each week to attend classes . |
| 4 | The board found him guilty of ‘ verbally abusing ’ tournament director Ann Yates and ‘ intimidating ’ referee John Street . |
| 5 | The blow caught him off-balance and he teetered for what seemed an age to the watchers , before falling into the rushing water with a hoarse scream . |
| 6 | Jonty Rhodes , whose fierce commitment and exuberance in the field made him one of the ‘ stars ’ of the World Cup . |
| 7 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 8 | The experience left him unable to move for ten hours . |
| 9 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 10 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 11 | Guilty because the authorities declare him guilty , a man must still be able to furnish pretexts for that guilt … |
| 12 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 13 | The teasing in the dormitory made him sick with anger . |
| 14 | The action brought him close to the edge of the path . |
| 15 | Still , he would have done if it had n't slipped his mind , and surely the intention made him culpable . |
| 16 | He raised his arm as if to protect himself as the car hit him full on . |
| 17 | Joseph started to shake his head — when the club struck him full in the mouth . |
| 18 | ‘ No , if Michael was set up then it 's obvious the killer wants him alive . ’ |
| 19 | When Turner founded the Atlanta- based 24-hour news service the pundits pronounced him mad , but a decade later Turner owns a world-wide network and is watched by millions . |
| 20 | Bernard could not fail to have been impressed by such spontaneous enthusiasm ; equally , Peter felt Bernard was ‘ obviously a man of excitement heading a most intriguing company , I could see that he needed someone to deal with the administration leaving him free to run his company . ’ |
| 21 | A new Quality Performance system was set up for the person rowing the boat to give him more incentive to work harder and become a key performer . |
| 22 | The faint glow on the skyline gave him some guidance , but apart from that , he could n't tell whether he was moving towards the shore , or across the bay , or just circling endlessly . |
| 23 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 24 | Havel asked the legislature to grant him broader powers to defuse the constitutional crisis . |
| 25 | When the girl phoned him later , he felt she was trying to pin him down , breaking his ideas into domestic shards , clinging to conventions he did n't want . |
| 26 | Irritated by her presence , Henry had mocked and teased her nevertheless , for he could be quite beastly when the mood took him that way . |
| 27 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 28 | Land was the basis of Lowther 's county and parliamentary position ; the law gave him added influence and opportunity . |
| 29 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |
| 30 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |