Example sentences of "a [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a case that bothered him because he felt that in the Assize Court the unfortunate man 's chances had been wrecked by that fool of a cocky young barrister who had concocted an elaborate defence that gave a totally false impression of what had happened . |
| 2 | It denied Mr Yeltsin the right to hold a referendum and accused him of stirring confrontation . |
| 3 | Last night Darlington police said a 14-year-old boy has been questioned about the fire and has been released pending a decision whether to charge him with any offence . |
| 4 | For example , assign your service manager a budget and let him control his own expenditure . |
| 5 | It is not possible to take separate sectors of administration , appoint an official to be in charge , give him a budget and let him get on with it , because if anything is raised in the press or in the House about this sector , there must be an immediate channel of communications to and instructions from the top . |
| 6 | Jinny was so amazed that she stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence and let him say goodbye and make their apologies all over again . |
| 7 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 8 | A marriage is so voidable if it has not been consummated because of the incapacity of either party , or because of one party 's wilful refusal to consummate it ; if the marriage was entered into without the consent of either party ( e.g. by reason of duress , mistake , or unsound mind ) ; if at the time of the marriage one party was suffering from mental disorder of such a kind as to render him or her unfitted for marriage , or from venereal disease ; or if the wife was at the time of the marriage pregnant by some other person than her husband . |
| 9 | There was a lilt that reminded him of Ella Fitzgerald . |
| 10 | He went inside and the kitchen scents hit him then , laying down a trail that drew him across the creaking boards and down the hall . |
| 11 | The first is that of Aphrodite and Adonis : Aphrodite , the great Goddess , hides the child Adonis in a chest and gives him to Persephone , Goddess of the Underworld , who falls in love with Adonis and refuses to give him back . |
| 12 | She laughed , a response that pleased him , then he stepped towards her and took both her hands in his , gazing steadily down at her , serious once more . |
| 13 | Oliver would n't understand that it was nicer of Dad to make him a toy than to buy him some dull old thing from a shop . |
| 14 | As he passed Liam , still asleep , he gave him a shove and sent him sprawling into the gravel . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Clay County wrenched the muscles in his quarters when dropping his hind legs in the water jump at Nottingham , so we decided to give the Cheltenham Festival a miss and let him have a long break . |
| 16 | I would offer a contract that allowed him exclusivity if he gets a minimum of 100 candidates in November 1993 and 200 during 1993/94 . |
| 17 | She put her hand under John Ruskin standing by a waterfall and tore him off the wall . |
| 18 | The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose . |
| 19 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 20 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 21 | But he looked up all the same and saw the bike pass by , the rider wearing an unfamiliar black helmet and black leathers , the motorbike low-slung , bulging , making a noise that made him think of someone beating cream in a bowl with a wooden spoon . |
| 22 | He would use the same series of signs to a horse that ignored him . |
| 23 | He waved the clerk to a seat and served him a cup of watered wine . |
| 24 | You could buy a spare Big Boss , load him up with magic items , mount him on a wyvern and use him to pick off the enemy 's general or other vital pieces early in the game . |
| 25 | If you put your Orc Shaman on a wyvern and fly him to the other end of the battlefield he wo n't be able to use his Waaagh magic . |
| 26 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
| 27 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 28 | Gone was the waxed jacket and jeans , replaced by a dinner-jacket that made him look formal and distinguished — and even more dangerously attractive . |
| 29 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 30 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |