Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 William Temple got him an honouring invitation , as a delegate to the vast ecumenical conference at Edinburgh in 1937 .
2 Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather .
3 Miss Merchiston flashed him a scornful glance .
4 The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right .
5 Maggie May gave him a hand-job .
6 For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion .
7 He filled this post and served his fellow deaf with such distinction that Archbishop Ramsay appointed him an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1966 .
8 Colin 's father Brian , 50 , sent his son programmes for every home game , while Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven sent him a video tape and got all the team to autograph a football shirt for him .
9 Marilyn Monroe gave him no clues .
10 ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford to win him the title last season .
11 Aunt Margaret gave him a toffee .
12 Mr Brownlow bought him a new suit and new shoes , and Oliver 's dirty old clothes were given away .
13 He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better .
14 He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne .
15 Brave Piper took the seventh round on my card , while drawing three others , and impressed English judge Mickey Vann to make him a round up going into the climatic 11th , which made a joke of Piper 's manager Frank Warren having objected to Vann as a judge .
16 Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off .
17 President Sékou-Touré gave him a warm welcome .
18 He was given the chance to show his skills on four wheels when Alfa Romeo gave him a trial , but he crashed one of their cars at Monza and was badly injured .
19 He paid his rent , and Mr Carnford gave him the name of an old servant to look after him .
20 His relations with the budget director , Richard Darman , especially over energy policy , are appalling — Mr Darman calls him a ‘ global rock star ’ .
21 It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom .
22 But Mr Major will now just see Mr Bush to bid him a personal farewell from office .
23 ‘ It 's not my fault , ’ wailed Felix , as Mr Patel struck him a blow to the shin .
24 Mr Hellyer gave him every assistance and afterwards went thankfully down to the pub for a few beers .
25 When he reached the front , Mr Saleb handed him a huge ledger over the top of the grille .
26 ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day .
27 When Baldwin returned to London , Tom Jones showed him an article in the Political Quarterly , suggesting that the new Monarch should mix with a wider range of people .
28 Mr Slater sent him a copy of the application .
29 While the Premier had fun in the sun , Labour 's Mr Brown bowled him a bumper by accusing him of REFUSING to act and REFUSING to speak .
30 The deceased , while Mr. Smith was , fortuitously and temporarily , out of the room , asked Mr. Morgan to hand him a piece of paper .
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