Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] him [conj] the " in BNC.

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1 " I deny " , wrote the most important eighteenth-century commentator on the subject , " that anyone can reach a decision through duly constituted judicial procedure in regard to the life , property , and reputation of the ambassador except the prince who sent him or the magistrate to whose jurisdiction he was formerly subject " .
2 We found the taxi driver who took him and the girl to the station and witnesses who saw them get on the train .
3 He was awakened by a seaman who told him that the ship would not be leaving for seven days , and there would be no place for him to hide as timber was being loaded under German supervision .
4 And now , on a particular social occasion in the novel , he 's introduced to Bergotte at a gathering in the Faubourg Saint Germain erm and he 's shocked at what seems to be the gap between the man who faces him and the author whose works he has so admired , and he writes , ‘ My greeting was returned by a youthful , uncouth , small , thickset , shortsighted person , with a red nose , curled like a snail 's shell , and a black tuft on his chin .
5 My Lord there is a final part of our submission on on this is because I do n't know whether your Lordship has a copy of the report this is the report of the fact that My Lord erm what I wish to refer you to if I may , is erm that paragraph three one of the report which is erm that solicitors and er he instructed himself er from the law society who told him that the law society in paragraph three page five , do n't issue any specific directional guidance duty of care in relation to the plaintiffs transaction , the Law Society view obligation to be have to be considered on the basis of and he then goes on from there to depart from that approach to speculate as to what his approach would be erm
6 We met in Bologna and while discussing the painting I informed him that the original had turned up at Wildenstein 's in New York , and had recently been sold to a New York private collector and that an article of mine was in proof , publishing the New York picture as the original .
7 His great awe for the timelessness of the landscape which surrounded him and the transience of mere man by comparison he revealed in his poem ‘ The Brook ’ …
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