Example sentences of "[verb] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy : it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection . |
| 2 | They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne . |
| 3 | Still , he thought , as long as Richmann considered him a superstitious peasant , he would n't consider him a threat . |
| 4 | But he 's a long way to go before I 'd consider him a success . |
| 5 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 6 | He conquered one of Europe 's toughest courses , the tour 's strongest field and the critics who labelled him a loser with his sudden-death triumph over Colin Montgomerie , elevating him back among the world 's leading players . |
| 7 | When he first started to air his views on intensive farming methods they labelled him a crank and hoped he would go away . |
| 8 | It implies that the Prime Minister has permitted him the freedom ‘ to take whatever action is needed ’ in the past . |
| 9 | ‘ Send him a wire as you leave town . |
| 10 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 11 | I shall make sure that I send him a copy of my speech tomorrow , which will give detail after detail of what is actually taking place in the valleys . |
| 12 | If the price of an earl is what he asks , send him an earl . |
| 13 | but I mean you send the package out and you get a phone call er it 's Mr Davies , and then you get card out and then you send him the questionnaire it 's merely a record duplicated on the form but |
| 14 | highways and that sort of thing , and he does go to Farnsfield , and he does go to Oxford and back , and really all you need do is just send him , you need n't send him the minutes here , you just send him the notice of the meeting |
| 15 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 16 | and he all he took was , like it was funny he got accepted into Oxford decided he was gon na buy him a bottle of champagne . |
| 17 | Well why does n't she buy him a computer ? |
| 18 | Soon , Freddy was asking if Mr Schwartz might buy him a suit . |
| 19 | How I wished I could buy him a record-player for all those useless records , but there was no point in thinking along those lines , so in the end I got him a belt , made of different coloured woven leathers , very gay and rather spivvy , only of course it would n't look spivvy on him . |
| 20 | Maybe I should buy him a place in the country . |
| 21 | I 'll buy him a packet of fags for erm taking us out |
| 22 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 23 | And we was gon na when we saw the interest , when the when it was proved there was enough people coming , we were gon na buy him the tools for that , to do the job properly . |
| 24 | The king 's original intention , goaded by the Pope 's refusal to grant him a divorce , had been to effect a greater lay control of an uncertain church . |
| 25 | To do that , on May 18th the prime minister , Leonid Kuchma , asked parliament to grant him a range of extraordinary powers : to rule the economy by decree , control the central bank and the state privatisation body and have jurisdiction over the president 's satraps in the regions . |
| 26 | For the law to grant him a defence in these circumstances would be to grant a licence for sexual exploitation . |
| 27 | It revoked the decision taken two weeks earlier to grant him a visa , on the grounds that he had refused to postpone until after the May 20 elections his planned departure from Switzerland with his wife Queen Anne and eldest daughters Princess Margerita and Princess Anne . |
| 28 | AT THE end of the Treta , or Second Age , Dasaratha , the childless king of the Solar race , performed the Aswa-medha sacrifice of horses and begged the gods to grant him a son . |
| 29 | A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller . |
| 30 | Lothlórien has won many hearts , and even the most censorious of Tolkien 's critics have accordingly been ready to grant him the ability to create nice settings . |