Example sentences of "it [verb] him [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix Labs did manage to walk away from Judge Debevoise 's courtroom with a minor victory : it got him to set the record straight as to how many copies of 32V were actually distributed . |
| 2 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 3 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 4 | For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available . |
| 5 | It made him feel a lot better . |
| 6 | Years later he said being called Boy was a disaster because as an old man of fifty it made him feel a fool . |
| 7 | And yet , says Renate Olins surprising positives may emerge : one initially devastated client in counselling began to reflect that her husband had started to play around because it made him feel a bigger man . |
| 8 | It made him feel uneasy-an unease he had communicated to Li Shai Tung when they were alone together . |
| 9 | It made him regret the passing of his youth , and the ennui he had felt before her arrival had miraculously disappeared . |
| 10 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 11 | It advised him to forgive the man and pray for him to have a change of heart . |
| 12 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 13 | For the dealer who did want a good price , the procedure became a matter of negotiation , and it paid him to buy the market-maker a drink sometimes . |
| 14 | The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once . |
| 15 | Aaron ( 7 ) was given an entrance exam which he passed and it allowed him to jump a grade . |
| 16 | ‘ Er — how long would it take him to get the part ? ’ she enquired , fearing the worst . |
| 17 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 18 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the window of his college bedroom was cherished in his memory because it enabled him to see the Antechapel of Trinity College , |
| 20 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 21 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 22 | But Lachlan still refused , though it hurt him to miss a fight . |
| 23 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 24 | And it expects him to keep a promise made to local priests that he intends to ‘ provide a Catholic desk for every Catholic pupil in Darlington where there is proven need ’ . |
| 25 | It urges him to safeguard the Highbury tradition and not turn the stadium into a middle class mausoleum . |
| 26 | Freud 's model of the collective evolution of some parts of humanity from archaic responses , found in religions , to more rational and reality-based responses , found in science and technology , may be little more than a description of what has happened , but it enables him to avoid the position of cultural relativism and its logical extension — nihilism . |