Example sentences of "and [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when supper was ready he bade his knights take their seats , and he took the leper by the hand , and seated him next himself , and ate with him out of the same dish . |
| 2 | … a round shot struck a seaman at one of the guns near them on the breast and laid him dead on the deck , before he had time to utter a groan . |
| 3 | Iorwerth reached out of the leaves for him and choked him mute , but the damage was done . |
| 4 | And then I took pity on him and lent him forty . |
| 5 | They crowded round the Bookman , apart from Mr Rumback who had fallen asleep in all the excitement , and asked him hundreds of questions all at once . |
| 6 | One of them was Edward Pease , who invited Durham to his home and asked him many questions . |
| 7 | I talked to Assemblyman Barry Keene , who , as Chairman of the California State Assembly Health Committee , wrote the bill and piloted it through the Legislature , and asked him first whether he felt that before the Act there was a grey area of uncertainty surrounding these problems . |
| 8 | But the overwhelming majority of the party was fully prepared to give Mr Major full credit for winning the general election and driving the Maastricht Bill through ‘ and back him 100 per cent ’ . |
| 9 | There was in Tolkien 's later life , he notes , ‘ a perpetual discontinuity , a breaking of threads which delayed achievement and frustrated him more and more ’ . |
| 10 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 11 | I wish I may not be too fond and make him indifferent . |
| 12 | Here lived Gottfried Keller ( 1819–90 ) , the Swiss poet and novelist whose carefully crafted short stories embrace both humour and a touching romanticism , and make him one of the most important figures of Swiss literature . |
| 13 | Are we to kill his scholarship and make him unhappy ? |
| 14 | It you are not happy with the service you are receiving from your dealer then contact the Customer Relations Manager ( Mr Jefferies ) at Land Rover 021–722 2424 and make him aware of the situation . |
| 15 | In this case , the sooner I remove young Svend from Suzie the siren , and make him aware of his responsibilities towards his parents and his own future , the sooner I can resume a normal life ! |
| 16 | Mr Collin has been urged by councillors to write to Darlington MP Michael Fallon and make him aware of the collection problems faced by the council . |
| 17 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 18 | Even so , a perfectly-sighted Ted can suffer with streaming eyes for several reasons during the fall , so best play safe and make him some goggles from a pop bottle , as shown opposite . |
| 19 | Motionless , unmindful of the cold or the swirling fog , he watched the man below , waiting for boredom to slacken his concentration and make him careless . |
| 20 | ‘ He said if it was his own son he would take him home and make him comfortable , ’ said Mrs McGettigan . |
| 21 | She kissed and blessed him and hugged him close , and it seemed to the uneasy watchers that she would after all change her mind . |
| 22 | I think I 'd better go home and make him some tea now , he 'll be wondering where I am |
| 23 | It was despairing and made him uneasy for a long time afterwards . |
| 24 | His abilities impressed A. C. Headlam [ q.v. ] , principal of King 's College , London , who secured lectureships in ecclesiastical history ( 1905–11 ) and patristics ( 1911–18 ) for him and made him sub-editor ( 1903–18 ) and later joint editor ( 1921–7 ) of the Church Quarterly Review . |
| 25 | In these heady days , Gould 's greed surpassed even his own bounds and made him capable of an ungentlemanly lack of sportsmanship . |
| 26 | And made him one of the leading authorities on the fourteenth century , which was arguably the most terrible century that had ever been , at least until the present one . |
| 27 | This enabled him to tell old jokes as if they were new and made him one of the ‘ all time great ’ story tellers . |
| 28 | The man was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; the many were that section of the French people who , newly enfranchised in 1848 , gave him their votes and made him first their president and then their emperor . |
| 29 | The hardness of Pharaoh 's heart : several times in these chapters God is said to have hardened Pharaoh 's heart and made him obstinate ( 4:21 ; 10:1 ; 20 , 27 ) . |
| 30 | He called Whittaker to his office the following Monday morning and made him chief trainer , waving aside protests of inexperience and of indignation at Hardy 's sacking . |