Example sentences of "[det] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this involves him in a vast amount of estate business as well as , he says with a mixture of relish and despair , ‘ this desperate business of patronage ’ . |
| 2 | This led him into a series of acrimonious exchanges , both private and public , with several notable scientists of the day , but mainly with Carpenter and Thomson , whom he also accused of plagiarizing his results , particularly those dealing with the biology of the foraminiferans . |
| 3 | This led him to an interest in hull forms and contact with the well-known naval architect William Froude [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | This provided him with an army of allies — and potential spies — surrounding a wide area of the Livingstone Manor estate . |
| 5 | Ronny is wanted by 6 or 7 norw. clubs — some want him as a central defender , some as central midfielder , some as a wide midfielder and some as an attacker . |
| 6 | This committed him to a punishing schedule for the next eight months , from the time the play went into rehearsal until it closed on 26 April 1969 after 161 consecutive performances . |
| 7 | She watched as Luke fought his own anger and then half threw him to the ground . |
| 8 | This leads him to a much wider generalization that the course of history , over space as well as time , is closely linked to the anthropological map . |
| 9 | This turned him into a hero of the silent majority . |
| 10 | He had held a greater ambition for some years , however , and this dominated him until the summer of 1952 — he wished to be President of the United States . |
| 11 | What he is asserting is that ‘ I have toothache ’ has meaning in virtue of pain-language taking the place of moaning ; and what he is denying is that saying this commits him to an experiential explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 12 | Two trucks overtaking one another brushed him to the side . |
| 13 | Some criticised his method of combating Bodyline by stepping away to cut the ball to the off , but Bradman claimed that this exposed him to a greater risk of injury than the orthodox type of batting . |
| 14 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
| 15 | It gave him four and a half years of power without full responsibility — although he no doubt did not consider that this placed him in the harlot class . |
| 16 | Some saw him as a prophet , a Welsh Kossuth or Mazzini , a ‘ lost leader ’ . |
| 17 | This put him in a quandary . |
| 18 | They were made of metal and this presented him with a major problem . |
| 19 | He grabbed hold of Steve by the scruff of the neck , half lifted , half dragged him to the front door . |
| 20 | This left him with no option but to renew the existing parliamentary alliance between the PRN and the right-wing Democratic Social Party ( PDS ) , the Liberal Front Party ( PFL ) and the Christian Democratic Party ( PDC ) , and to continue without a majority in either house of the Congress , despite the difficulties this would pose for the passage of future legislation particularly on the ambitious and controversial privatization programme . |
| 21 | Some had him with a moustache , others clean-shaven . |
| 22 | This leaves him with a personality that is highly developed in one direction at the expense of the rest . |
| 23 | But if the teacher remains the chief articulator of purpose and the planner and executor of method , this leaves him in a fairly exposed position even if lie is surrounded by technical , production and librarianship support . |
| 24 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 25 | This pushed him into the path of an oncoming vehicle driven by the second defendant . |
| 26 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 27 | Cos that allows him to the cost ? |
| 28 | Our white 's qualities would certainly tend very much to preserve him to a good old age , and yet he would not suffice in any number of generations to turn his subjects ' descendants white … |
| 29 | On occasions a fortunate , or bemused , beneficiary received no less than three charters each confirming him in the legitimate enjoyment of the same right . |
| 30 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |