Example sentences of "the [adj] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Cecil evidently rebuffed Sir Arthur Gorges when the latter sent him a present in 1603 , for Gorges wrote in a hurt tone that he had only followed ‘ the common custom and usual compliment of the time ’ . |
| 2 | He also practised medicine and magic , and the latter brought him an unsavoury reputation . |
| 3 | Heavily in debt , following the failure of his appeal to the King 's Bench , he had to be rescued by his friends , Western and Samuel Whitbread [ q.v. ] , the latter paying him an annuity of £1,000 . |
| 4 | Two birdies in his first three holes and another at the sixth gave him a flying start but it was not all so straightforward . |
| 5 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 6 | Ted Owens was one of the stalwarts of Crystal Palace FC during the inter-war period , when his resolute performances at right-back during the latter half of the 1930s made him a firm favourite . |
| 7 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 8 | But the Sixties gave him a background to emerge from ; in fact , he wrote part of the script for the age and it never left him ; he did n't allow it to leave him . |
| 9 | A missed downhill three-footer at the 18th denied him a red round . |
| 10 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |