Example sentences of "him [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael must have wondered why I 'd come to visit him disguised as a zebra . |
| 2 | Even the Fuehrer , not a man to rush to admit error , changed his mind about the Foerer , as Quisling styled himself , and had him sacked within a week . |
| 3 | He also intervenes in the life of another guest at the party , Celia Coplestone , a young woman who comes to him filled with a sense " … of emptiness , of failure " . |
| 4 | If his brother Ulf was involved , as stated by Saxo Grammaticus and possibly lost northern sources , he too must have made his peace with Cnut , who allegedly had him assassinated in a church at Roskilde . |
| 5 | As the 1976 national elections approached the Democrats were still smarting from the humiliations of 1972 when a badly divided party had nominated George McGovern and seen him overwhelmed by a landslide victory for Richard Nixon . |
| 6 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 7 | Then the Burewala Bombshell started to work Smith over , kicking a bouncer high over him then hitting him in the box , before having him caught for a duck , pushing to midwicket as he swung his body behind a fixed forward prod : 27 for 2 . |
| 8 | After a spell at the rehabilitation centre , Guy 's parents realized it was a mistake , and tried to have him transferred to a specialist stroke rehabilitation centre in London , even though this was a long way from home . |
| 9 | Another prisoner wrote to me recently , and I am now seeking to get him transferred to a prison nearer his home in Liverpool . |
| 10 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
| 11 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 12 | I punished him in every way I could think of — I married him to Minnie , gave him children , got him bitten by a vampire so that he grew fangs and finally had him turned into a rat by a wicked witch , a great improvement . |
| 13 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 14 | as if that were not enough , the Department of Trade and Industry is still trying to have him disqualified as a company director for his role in the collapse of Homes Assured — a move which forced his resignation from the chairmanship of Lonrho in 1991 . |
| 15 | When Vigier de la Rousselle dared to advocate the continuation of appeals to Paris in 1312 , the whole matter was taken up in a very ‘ political ’ way by the authorities in Bordeaux , who accused Vigier of contempt of ducal authority and had him executed on a charge which was , in effect , that of treason . |
| 16 | The first hole and clubhouse will , we are told , be in the Harpsden Valley opposite the land lately purchased by Mr John Hodges and by him converted into a cricket ground . |
| 17 | I 've had him put in a strait-jacket and one of those leather masks with the little bars over the mouth hole . |
| 18 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 19 | In contrast only one surviving statue of Hadrian shows him dressed in a toga . |
| 20 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 21 | Eventually we find him established as a hermit at Finchale , having abandoned the pursuit of earthly treasure . |