Example sentences of "him [prep] the [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 2 | It was Cannistraro and his colleagues who also identified the mysterious Libyan who bought the clothes in Malta to wrap around the bomb , based on a photofit picture produced by the FBI from the shopkeeper 's phenomenally detailed description of his customer ten months after he saw him for the first and only time . |
| 3 | His research has taken him through the alpine and arid zones of Australia ; botanical history is one of his many interests , and he specialises in the ‘ Compositae ’ family . |
| 4 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 5 | Further questions on unemployment ‘ people do n't want training they want jobs ’ , homelessness and the NHS left Mr Major a little wobbly but provided him with the best and closing line of the night . |
| 6 | She wanted , as the strands of trees drew out , to be beneath him in the bare and leafless brown of a wood . |
| 7 | He became increasingly preoccupied with his mistress , Alice Perrers , and could no longer offer the leadership which had united the nobility behind him in the 1340s and 1350s . |
| 8 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 9 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 10 | ‘ Too refined , ’ Julia explained didactically and pressed on to introduce him to the black and white humbug types labelled British Alpines , standing next to the skewbald variety called British Toggenbergs . |
| 11 | They had climbed all over him in Tatton Park , looked at Granada TV studio sets with him , been with him to the Industrial and Air Museums . |
| 12 | He is himself unreadable and hence ungovernable — a walking accusation levelled at the sympathetic educated sensibility which seeks simultaneously to understand him and set him on the straight and narrow . |
| 13 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 14 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 15 | You now , he , he 's had , I 'm just keeping him on the straight and narrow while he 's on remission . |
| 16 | At Pace 's 57th St space until 17 October , Claes Oldenburg has returned to the possibilities of human scale sculptures of harps , saxophones , scent bottles , a tie etc after his monumental commissions that have occupied him since the 1980s and which include ‘ Match Cover ’ in the Olympic village at Barcelona . |
| 17 | ‘ We 're not playing , Connelly , ’ Farrell told him and pulled him across the hot and clammy room . |