Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb pp] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 2 | A friend of Watt 's at the University introduced him to John Roebuck , an industrialist who was involved with coal mines and iron works in Scotland . |
| 3 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 4 | The President called him into the room . |
| 5 | The other , Benedict XIII , fled to the castle of Peñiscola in north-east Spain , where he spent the remainder of his days : the Council deposed him in July 1417 . |
| 6 | ‘ When the judge sentenced him to five years I felt like shouting out ‘ thank you ’ , ’ said Kate Connolly . |
| 7 | The boy fixed him with a final look , but said no more , and slipped away into the crowd , only turning back once more . |
| 8 | The vulgar Miller intrudes , and , with his fabliau and the nature of the genre and of fabliau language in mind , we can find some amusement in contemplating the possible sexual reading of " " unbokeled is the male " " , " the purse is unbuckled " , a vulgarity that the Host , playing the role given him at this point , would no doubt have considered excluded from his words . |
| 9 | The jury convicted him on the counts of theft , but by directions of the recorder returned no verdict on the section 15(1) count . |
| 10 | The jury convicted him of just handling it , then heard that he has 244 previous convictions — 230 for BURGLARY . |
| 11 | In the second case , there will need to be an original and a duplicate ( or examined copy ) of each document so that the husband has a record of the release from the first mortgage and of the indemnity given him in respect of the second mortgage . |
| 12 | On Aug. 11 McCarthy delivered to Pérez de Cuéllar the letter given him by Islamic Jihad . |
| 13 | While it seems fairly certain that Cemaleddin did not live into Bayezid 's reign , it also seems not impossible that the works were written for Bayezid after about 783/1381 , when it became more nearly connected with Anatolian affairs by taking over the province given him by — or , more correctly , taken from — the Germiyanids as a dowry . |
| 14 | At about four he rang up the number given him for Gerald Seymour-Strachey , but he was answered by a not too refined woman 's voice — a voice with a touch of the treacle tart in it , and a touch of the plain tart as well . |
| 15 | The possibility fascinated him from the beginning , from the moment Mr Evans walked into the kitchen while they were having breakfast their first morning and bared those loose teeth in what he probably thought was a smile . |
| 16 | Holly sweating , Holly who was not trained and who had laid the envelope given him by Alan Millet on the top of the wire rubbish basket beside the bench on the Lenin hills . |