Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year the Republic refused to extradite Mr Ryan to Britain to face terrorism charges , including conspiracy to murder and cause explosions , on the grounds that allegations in the Press and Parliament linking him with the IRA meant he would not receive a fair trial in Britain . |
| 2 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 3 | Certified accountant Tony Berry , former chairman and chief executive of the Blue Arrow employment agency and one time darling of the City , faces action by the Department of Trade and Industry to disqualify him from acting as a company director , following publication of a highly critical DTI inspectors ' report into Blue Arrow 's management . |
| 4 | On the other hand , the buyer will wish to have the comfort of the guarantee , and , in addition , whatever rights law and statute grant him in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 5 | The King and Queen loaded him with wealth and honours but Columbus wanted even more . |
| 6 | Milton 's maintenance of the traditional Renaissance literary values of art , imitation , and exercise allowed him to be appropriated by a culturally elitist agenda indivisibly caught up with an elitist social and political agenda . |
| 7 | Lam 's biography seems tailor-made for todays ' infatuation with multiculturalism : he was born in Cuba to a Chinese father and a Creole mother , he was a Roman Catholic fascinated by Santeria ( Cuban animism ) , his studies and work took him to France , Spain , the United States and the Caribbean , and each of his three wives came from a different European country . |
| 8 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
| 9 | A PENSIONER has told how positive thinking and determination pulled him through two strokes . |
| 10 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 11 | Weakness kept him confined to his room most of the time and an overwhelming sense of guilt , remorse and failure prevented him from doing anything about writing to Liza . |
| 12 | French and Ukrainian , mathematics and chemistry bored him to the point of insanity ; only in music and English could he hope to get decent marks . |
| 13 | Fife and Drum followed him with their eyes , showing no surprise . |
| 14 | Lam 's stylistic passage through Primitivism , Cubism , and Surrealism show him to be a man of his times . |
| 15 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 16 | They gave him clothing ( which included a black jacket and striped trousers — my father 's best suit ) and enough food and water to last him until morning . |
| 17 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 18 | Ralph Gibson L.J. , in a powerful dissenting judgment , concluded that both principle and authority prevented him from reaching the same conclusion . |
| 19 | Heat and smoke buffeted him with welcoming arms as he entered the bar . |
| 20 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 21 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |
| 22 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 23 | Minton 's virtuoso performances with pencil or pen and ink commended him as a teacher . |
| 24 | Then his own wife and daughter joined him in Hollywood , and he began to settle down again . |
| 25 | The burdens and lack of stability of his social community became unbearable and the poet yearns for an age of permanence and simplicity to provide him with an alternative to the real world . |
| 26 | His eyes sparkled with delight as her mannerisms and voice reminded him of just how attractive he found Englishwomen . |
| 27 | Spurred on by her envious sisters , who convince her that her mystery spouse is really a foul serpent , she arms herself with a lamp to see him with and knife to attack him with . |
| 28 | The need to do this could arise when time and space prevent him from having immediate contact with his source of succour , as would occur for example , on hunting expeditions . |
| 29 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 30 | Jargon and quirkiness assail him at times like passing attacks of cramp , but in the main he is always on the alert for a new ‘ angle ’ , always individual in expression and always ready to usher the most illuminating quotations to their correct places with the discreet poise of a butler from his chosen period . |