Example sentences of "him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 2 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 3 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 4 | Behind him the eastern sky was already brightening , and the wasteland , which had been a formless void of darkness above the lumpy earth , was assuming an identity and a shape . |
| 5 | Past examination papers will also show him the probable lay-out of the paper that he will be expected to answer , and the amount of time likely to be allowed on each question . |
| 6 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 7 | The Russians denied him the decisive pitched battle on which he had counted . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was a precocious interest in Wealden fossils that led to the assembly of a large and valuable collection that was donated in 1884 to the newly opened Natural History Museum in South Kensington , and which gained him not only the title of honorary collector for the museum but also brought him the coveted fellowship of the London Geological Society at the age of twenty-one . |
| 9 | Until early in the eighteenth century , moreover , foreign diplomats when given audience by the sultan were expected to wear a Turkish-style robe over their normal clothing in order to spare him the repellent sight of European dress . |
| 10 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 11 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 12 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 13 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 14 | We are some way from the context of the debate , but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered , I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office . |
| 15 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |
| 16 | She gave him the gentle brush-off : how could this boil-necked boyo know Emlyn Williams ? |
| 17 | THE PATIENT WITH PERCEPTUAL PROBLEMS MAY NEED CONSTANT GUIDANCE WHEN WASHING OR SHAVING , TO REMIND HIM THE AFFECTED HALF OF HIS FACE EXISTS . |
| 18 | Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over . |
| 19 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 20 | He will be able to handle a wider range of options with only mnemonic guidance — for him the minimum number of key-strokes for program control is appropriate . |
| 21 | Rachel sat there in the back of the Mercedes , unable to give him the stinging retort on her lips because she knew he would do what he promised , and she had a profound fear that the minute he made love to her fully the feelings she was desperately trying to suppress would keel over and completely overwhelm her , leaving her not just vulnerable but absolutely devastated by the reality of what they were . |
| 22 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Before I left I was able to give him the good news about his friend Donald , one of the officers to whom we had given food and clothes on the banks of the Rovacchia . |
| 25 | And give him the good news . |
| 26 | She offered him the half-smoked burnie but he batted it angrily from her fingers before heading back towards the concourse . |
| 27 | I hand him the agreed fee , in dollars , and for a moment we are suspended , directionless , outside his office . |
| 28 | ‘ But when I see those stones here , and ponder — as I was doing when I so nearly precipitated myself upon you — ’ he laughed , gently , at his own folly and again rapiered a look to Miss D'Arcy who , in control now , returned to him the dreamy interest of the truly hooked — ‘ it was Egypt I thought on . |
| 29 | It seemed to him now , that she had planted inside him the dark seed of failure : that from it , everything else had flowered , his inability to keep a job , his uselessness , his drinking , his failed marriage . |
| 30 | He had not provided water to wash the feet and had not given him the traditional greeting of a kiss ( Luke 7:44–45 ) . |