Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a succession of paycops , stewardesses , diplomatics , immigration officials , armourcabbies , narcotics relay expeditors , hotel functionaries , arms dealers and hookers told him to ‘ have a snazz day ’ and shoved his credit card through their machines , he wondered whether they would like the real 21st century when Nguyen Seth rained it down on them . |
| 2 | He almost bustled to the far table where glasses and decanters provided him with an interval of escape from the lonely speechlessness that only Aunt Tossie understood . |
| 3 | In preparation for the next elections , Williams persuaded a number of local politicians and businessmen to join him in running for office on the P.N.M. ticket . |
| 4 | Dire Straits and discos filled him with horror . |
| 5 | Their first soreness and troubles led him to Nairn . |
| 6 | Chekhov was Dad 's favourite all-time writer , and he always said Chekhov 's plays and stories reminded him of India . |
| 7 | By Thursday evening , errors and ommissions underwriters are due to remit £116 million to solicitor Richards Butler under the settlement reached last month between underwriter Richard Outhwaite and names suing him for negligence over £260 million of losses . |
| 8 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 9 | During his spin around Phoenix , the ambassador remarked that the climate and surroundings reminded him of home . |
| 10 | Bakatin also announced , in a sign of the changes , that he was overruling KGB objections and would allow Oleg Gordievsky 's wife and children to join him in London , where he had defected in 1985 [ see pp. 34004-05 ] . |
| 11 | He sought mandamus directed not to the visitor but to the provost and fellows to reinstate him on the grounds that the provost and fellows had breached the rules of natural justice . |
| 12 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 13 | Lord Morris said that a consideration of the facts and documents led him to the view that the solus agreement , the loan agreement and the mortgage could be linked together as an instance of one transaction and that the intention was that in providing that the mortgage should be irredeemable for the period of the tie it should become a support for the solus agreement . |
| 14 | Cora-Beth had told him the night before that there were letters and cards awaiting him from England , all of which had ‘ Not To Be Opened Until 5 Jan. ’ on the envelopes , so she had extracted a promise from him to leave them on his bedside table until this morning . |
| 15 | The tariff policy therefore carried with it the last hope of consolidating the Empire and the last hope of reversing the drift into class politics ; as a pessimist , Law saw further ahead than most of his contemporaries , and events proved him to be more nearly right than they were . |