Example sentences of "[to-vb] he a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 2 | Later he agreed with a sub-purchaser to sell him a similar cargo at 19s. per ton . |
| 3 | Corbett agreed , allowing the Lady Prioress to serve him a full cup of malmsey whilst chattering about everyday matters and his recent trip to Woodstock . |
| 4 | Indeed , they are likely to win him a new reputation as a man for whom the boom never ended . |
| 5 | Plus Thomas 's wedding an'all and I 'd like to buy him a decent present like considering His flat 's nice . |
| 6 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 7 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 8 | Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay . |
| 9 | His two Cabinet portfolios , which would make him the most powerful member of the government after the Prime Minister , were expected to give him a key role in the formulation of the country 's overall foreign policy . |
| 10 | Major Robert Burrows had cancer , but Eva 's arrival seemed to give him a new lease of life . |
| 11 | A salesman who makes a large number of sales every day would probably prefer a weekly target to give him a continued sense of achievement . |
| 12 | His means , though unmentioned , derived from his family 's West Riding worsted mills , and were sufficient to give him a substantial independence from stipends . |
| 13 | The auditor should carry out such a review of the financial statements as is sufficient , in conjunction with the conclusions drawn from the other audit evidence obtained , to give him a reasonable basis for his opinion on the financial statements . |
| 14 | I leaned forward , put my thumb under my lip and jerked it up to give him a close-up view of the long gash and the trailing blood-stained ends of the stitches . |
| 15 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 16 | A long-term , good investment would be to give him a separate building in which to tell the tale of twentieth-century art before the twentieth century is quite at an end . |
| 17 | His highest weighted opponent was the 1929 Preakness winner Dr Freeland with eight stone eight pounds , but the horse most fancied to give him a true test in his first race outside Australia was Spanish Play , who had won the New Orleans Handicap eight days before . |
| 18 | But I thought it would do Roy a power of good to give him a few games at the back as part of his education . ’ |
| 19 | He might find it useful having an old man like me around to give him a few tips on how to manage horses . ’ |
| 20 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 21 | In 1844 William Makepeace Thackeray managed to get P & O to give him a free passage on a voyage to Athens , Constantinople , Jerusalem and Cairo and earned money by writing about the trip afterwards . |
| 22 | Yet the authorities in America refused to give him a green card as a full-time athlete because they said he was n't good enough . |
| 23 | He is on course to secure a clear majority among the union block votes in Labour 's electoral college to give him a clear advantage in the battle to succeed Mr Kinnock . |
| 24 | The railway have promised to give him a special party during the weekend of October 26 and 27 and he looks forward to seeing as many of this young friends as possible at that event . |
| 25 | Enraged by his presumption , she longed to land him a good smack on the face , famous actor or no famous actor , but he had her arms pinned to her sides , and his strength was far greater than hers . |
| 26 | have to send him a stamped envelope with the address of the guy and putting on it . |
| 27 | At the most he could try to plead some implied term into the contract that the goods would last for a reasonable time after delivery to allow him a reasonable period of trouble-free use . |
| 28 | In 1168 Geoffrey stood on the threshold of a long and turbulent career which was to earn him a great reputation as a knight both in Europe and on crusade and to help lift his dynasty out of the ranks of the barons of Poitou and place it firmly among the leading princes of Christendom . |
| 29 | But Mr Major will now just see Mr Bush to bid him a personal farewell from office . |
| 30 | In July 1568 , he was appointed to the Commission of Sewers , along with Lord Cobham , a position he was to hold for many years and which was to make him a close friend of Lord Cobham until Cobham 's death . |