Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 2 | There is a statue in the village to the most endearing Pyreneeist of them all , Count Henry Russell , Irish on his father 's side and Gas con on his mother 's , who climbed obsessively and made so many ascents of Vignemale — thirty in all — that in 1889 the authorities granted him a concession to it . |
| 3 | The golden touch : Australian lock John Eales — whose domination of the line-outs earned him the Man of the Series award — steals a march on Doddie Weir as Willie Ofahengaue lends him a helping hand … |
| 4 | write to him as well disgusting , as if you do n't , you do n't need that sort of aggravation from a teacher stirring up trouble like that making the kids making him a laughing stock , he does not need that , its just not on is it ? , and as he says I 'm sure she does it on purpose . |
| 5 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 6 | His self-promotional skills combined with his love of sport and the arts made him a popular choice in his new fields . |
| 7 | ( Act 1 scene 3 ) And , only three lines after this , the theme of belief in the power of evil is shown by Macbeth when he says that the witches gave him the Thanehood when it was actually the king . |
| 8 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 9 | One of the attendants offered him a cup : he did not drink from this but threw out the contents and ran off with it . |
| 10 | I 'd also like to thank his parents for what they have contributed over the years to make him the person he is , supporting him through college , and also for making me such a welcome member of their family . |
| 11 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 12 | Certain value added tax cases would tend to indicate that the amount of benefit obtained by a taxpayer if the trustees allow him the use of a Ming Vase would equate to the sort of rent which they could have received if they had let the vase with appropriate adjustments being made for insurance , agreeing to house the vase , etc . |
| 13 | The undergraduates found him a leg-puller , and a reveller in political argument . |
| 14 | The Trees paid him no heed . |
| 15 | The sisters found him a loner , difficult to relate to in a normal friendly way . |
| 16 | It was doubtful whether his preaching saved many souls , but enough of the navvies gave him a polite hearing to satisfy his missionary urges . |
| 17 | The girls gave him a challenge that they would achieve £81k worth of sales by the end of the third quarter , and they did ! |
| 18 | And although none of the critics called him a genius for playing in them , none argued about the extent of his talent either . |
| 19 | Once the superbike race was over McCallen presented himself again for examination and the doctors gave him the all clear for the Regal 600cc race . |
| 20 | The men gave him a small piece of paper . |
| 21 | Suspended from duty , the police gave him an internal trial . |
| 22 | In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists . |
| 23 | Kendall has dismissed him , but Everton might be better off re-educating the others to give him the service he thrives on . |
| 24 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 25 | The parishioners bought him a head stone . |
| 26 | The bookies gave him the tightest odds of any of the outgoing MPs , but he was still two-to-one on to win . |
| 27 | David Owen 's late endorsement of the Tories makes him the strongest contender for the Hong Kong post , but do not write off Maude just yet . |
| 28 | Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year . |
| 29 | The polls gave him a lead of between five and eight points but when ‘ undecided ’ voters who traditionally opt for the challenger are considered , Clinton is pushed to a commanding 12-point lead . |
| 30 | At special stage 20 , the valiant 24-year-old Scot gunned his accelerator as the marshals gave him a five-second countdown . |