Example sentences of "him the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These plans will be costed , giving him the best possible chance to make an effective case . |
| 2 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 3 | An experimental scientist , on the other hand , arranges matters so that what happens will give him the greatest possible amount of information . |
| 4 | Not for him the good old days of the 1960s , when the Mirror — social conscience and all — reigned supreme and Pilger was churning out his hard-hitting reports . |
| 5 | The Prophets represent the will of the father , Moses , and before him the great Primal Father . |
| 6 | Her composure regained , she turned back to hand him the long tall glass of iced tea , managing with an effort not to flinch visibly when his fingers touched her . |
| 7 | For that Macaulay reportedly earned £62,000 but his fee has soared to more than £2 million , making him the highest paid child star of all time . |
| 8 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 9 | A performance of perfect control and naturalness from Michael Crawford makes him the one true man at the play 's heart . |
| 10 | It was announced at the same time that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , would travel to Beijing to sign the agreement , making him the first Western head of government to visit China since the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in June 1989 . |
| 11 | It was 10.35 and Brenda Pridmore , at the reception desk at the rear of the main hall of Hoggatt 's Laboratory , watched wide-eyed while Inspector Blakelock drew to-yards him the first labelled bag of exhibits from the clunch pit murder . |
| 12 | His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 . |
| 13 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 14 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 15 | Robson 's influence has been legendary within United — but manager Alex Ferguson believes Ince is showing the qualities which will make him the new Red leader . |
| 16 | If so , would you kindly forward to him the tiny little package ? |
| 17 | Jones tried to put before him the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 18 | I had to accept the fact that he was an individualist , and that for him the only tolerable war was one in which he felt he was making some personal contribution — personal , but never ‘ glory-seeking ’ , as he had made clear in 1940 , not least by being prepared to postpone obtaining his commission . |
| 19 | So , we toast the railway station and I tell him the only Czech joke I know . |
| 20 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 21 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 22 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 23 | She sometimes had given him the spare front door key but he denied having had the key on the day of her death . |
| 24 | The reader is also invited to ponder which of the two proofs gives him the greater personal satisfaction . |
| 25 | Not for him the limited intellectual life of some academics , who spend their careers developing minor lines of enquiry from their doctoral theses and seldom move far from the safety of their chosen subject . |
| 26 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 27 | He was pleased to know that the New England Crataegus from West Jersey grew well at Chelsea ; with him the fine juicy fruit had been stripped by birds one September day . |
| 28 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 29 | When Anthony arrived spent and ill-looking from the hospital later that evening , Julia handed him the thin yellow sheet and was relieved to see a lightening in his dark grey eyes and a faint smile on his thin lips . |
| 30 | Writers such as Aristotle , and a century before him the so-called Old Oligarch — both unsympathetic to democracy — naturally used terms such as " the virtuous " , " the noble " , " the best " , " the few " , " the notable , " the wealthy " , almost interchangeably , and contrasted this elite group with another , called variously " the mob " , " the poor " , " the mass " , " the worse " , and so on . |