Example sentences of "it [verb] him [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 2 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 3 | I am saying this to show you the other side of Basil — this firmness — this absolute integrity — if you believe in a thing lie would say , even if it made him a bit unpopular , which I think is marvellous . |
| 4 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 5 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 6 | And it cost him a share of the halfway lead in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 7 | On one occasion he suffered an uncontrollable ‘ outburst ’ during his sleep and reckoned it cost him a masterpiece the next morning . |
| 8 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 9 | It cost him no effort , no extra pain . |
| 10 | It cost him the land he had so longed to enter . |
| 11 | It cost him the tournament . |
| 12 | It afforded him a measure of satisfaction to insult her , and to document her improper behaviour with Underwood . |
| 13 | Mr Browne was disowned by his party because it judged him a cad . |
| 14 | Or , if it did , it paid him no heed . |
| 15 | It allowed him a view of the patio and put Schmidt between him and the door he 'd entered by . |
| 16 | It takes him a minute to realize what it is . |
| 17 | It takes him a moment to regain his composure . |
| 18 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 19 | Well wo n't it take him a lot longer than going to Cramley ? |
| 20 | It worried him a bit , but it was n't here that he looked nervous and gave me reason to be concerned . |
| 21 | He had never visited the prison here before , and it took him a while to find it . |
| 22 | But now yeah it took him a while to calm down but he 's a very nice fellow now , very nice chap . |
| 23 | It took him a second to work out what it was , that it was the sheep galloping . |
| 24 | The voice at the other end was plainly over-excited and it took him a minute to disentangle what he was being told . |
| 25 | Two more of the nave lights had been switched on but the church was still dim compared with the harsh glare of the arc lights trained on the scene and it took him a minute to locate Father Barnes , a dark shape at the end of the first row of chairs under the pulpit . |
| 26 | Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved . |
| 27 | By the end of the race he had lost nearly two stone from a frame that has no spare fat , and it took him a week to start eating properly again and a further three weeks to regain the lost weight . |
| 28 | I bet it took him a week to think that one up . |
| 29 | It took him a moment . |
| 30 | The Adjudicator was pale , and it took him a moment to formulate a reply . |