Example sentences of "him the [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 2 | Six months ago , we put to him the problem of single-union agreements and he dismissed it . |
| 3 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 4 | His vehement denial that God 's favor could be earned through the sacraments , or bought by donations to an often grasping priesthood , had set up vibrations through Christendom , eventually winning him the protection of lay powers having a vested interest in a deflation of the papacy . |
| 5 | She sat down opposite him and propped her chin on her hands and gave him the look of limpid honesty at which she was particularly gifted . |
| 6 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 7 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 8 | According to Edward Hyde , Earl of Clarendon [ q.v. ] , without him the king at one time could not have got bread . |
| 9 | Britain bought him off by offering him the sovereignty of this area , ‘ Transjordan ’ . |
| 10 | Nor did they see him the day after that . |
| 11 | When man comes into this cycle , he brings with him the possibility of radical changes which can completely upset the natural balance . |
| 12 | This , however , seems to him the condemnation of such uses of the words and such forms of moral judgement . |
| 13 | ‘ But Harry may know only too well that through him the secret of this grave 's no secret . |
| 14 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 15 | In his place he put Austen Chamberlain , although a little more by accident than design , for Baldwin had offered him the choice between that and the India Office . |
| 16 | Offer him the choice of any face and he wants to be Paul Newman , not Broderick Crawford : ‘ Would n't everybody choose someone better looking ? ’ |
| 17 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 18 | On the lower rung of legal self-determination the grant of customary franchises might be in a lord 's interests , for it could secure his revenues in perpetuity , even as it barred him the chance of arbitrary exaction ; besides , an early concession might prevent more explosive demands later . |
| 19 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 20 | They arrived late at night at the colliery house where Patterson 's parents lived , put up at a nearby hotel and the next day toured the working-men 's clubs before attending the wedding where Norman 's good looks made him the talk of all the women present . |
| 21 | I handed him the plate of hot meat and vegetables . |
| 22 | His left hand , bent with arthritis , curved over a stick on which he leant so heavily as to give him the appearance of physical deformity . |
| 23 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 24 | The Goodison Park striker claimed manager Howard Kendall had made him the scapegoat for all the problems besetting the Mersey giants and blamed the absence of a midfield creator for the lack of goals . |
| 25 | Of no mean magnetism himself — Lawrence thought highly enough of him to make him the recipient of some of his most excruciating introspections — Curtis was the inspirational force of that curious organization , the Round Table , in whose journal of the same name Lawrence published his article on the new imperialism in the Middle East . |
| 26 | Both God and nature have combined to bestow lavishly upon him the gift of perfect happiness . |
| 27 | US sources in London insist that Mr Clinton has put behind him the resentment over Conservative involvement in the US election . |
| 28 | She offered him the tray of boiled sweets . |
| 29 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 30 | ‘ My husband is n't well , ’ I said , having no mind to hand him the truth at that moment . |