Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 2 | He thrust towards him the most recent attempt at a letter for publication . |
| 3 | When Nicholas McGegan took over from John Eliot Gardiner as Music Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival , he took with him the idea of recording all his performances on CD . |
| 4 | Kabir said he brought with him the thirst for the infinite . |
| 5 | He brought with him the ‘ direct action ’ theory and practice of the libertarian left . |
| 6 | When he returned two or three minutes later , he brought with him the fragrance ( in Dickensian phrase ) of a fairy emerging from a wine vault , and hiccoughing . |
| 7 | He brought with him the kind of gold medal form that helped Great Britain to Olympic glory in the Seoul sunshine . |
| 8 | Tall , ruddy-faced and tending to corpulence in his early forties , he had about him the self-satisfied air of a man who has already achieved some measure of public acclaim ; he wore his thick shock of fair hair brushed across his forehead from a centre parting in two matching wings , and his upper lip was thatched with a fashionably luxuriant mustache . |
| 9 | He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation . |
| 10 | He carried with him the minister of the Congregational Church , H. C. Carter , and in the back seat three ladies , Mrs Ramsey , and Mrs Carter , and a Danish friend of Mrs Carter . |
| 11 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 12 | Horror and death were his trade and , like an undertaker , he carried with him the contagion of his craft . |
| 13 | And worst of all he carried with him the sense that he had no right to life , no more than hundreds or thousands of others , starting with his family , who had not lived . |
| 14 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |
| 15 | He left behind him the scene , still shockingly evident , of the destruction by the Israelis of the Osirak reactor , the flattened mound of concrete . |