Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] him [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When John McEnroe stunned the tennis world by beating Boris Becker at the Australian Open , after a succession of resounding defeats from the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon Champion in 1985 , he described it as ‘ getting a monkey off my back . ’ |
| 2 | He gave land to Chad at Barrow in Lindsey for the building of a monastery ( HE IV , 3 ) , and when Chad died Wynfrith , who succeeded him as bishop , was evidently abbot of Barrow ( HE IV , 6 ) . |
| 3 | In the early 1640s Best compiled an account of his farming methods and other country matters , such as ‘ the fashions att our Country weddings ’ , for the benefit of his son , John ( 1620–69 ) , who succeeded him as lord of the manor . |
| 4 | In the early pages of the Old Testament , Joseph was cruelly treated by his brothers , who sold him into slavery . |
| 5 | Swinton , who sold him to Widnes for only £7,500 in January last year , would like him back . |
| 6 | An unnamed 21-year-old man was beaten unconscious by a group of thugs who attacked him with sticks . |
| 7 | When neighbours who entertained him in Knightsbridge spent a rare weekend at Hatherley they were surprised at the switch from newspaper owner to farmer , a switch so thorough that the paper was not mentioned the whole time they were there . |
| 8 | Vittorio Cassoni , erstwhile head of AT&T 's computer shop , and as such , the single individual most credited with giving the Open Software Foundation a reason to exist and dividing the Unix community into two opposing camps , has left Olivetti , who lent him to AT&T in the first place , to join Xerox Corp as executive vice president . |
| 9 | Alexander MacDondald of Boisdale , the Highland chief who met him on arrival , begged him to go back to Europe . |
| 10 | One observer who met him in November of this year at Lady Colefax recollected that " he seemed to be holding himself together , almost as if he were a piece of riveted china " . " |
| 11 | Norman Williamson who rode him at Leopardstown , observed afterwards that he was a National horse when talking to Richard Dunwoody about the race and if Richards has retained his old magic , then there could quite well be another National winner destined to return home in triumph to his Lake District stables . |
| 12 | To her , I was one of Will 's wild friends , who got him into trouble . |
| 13 | He remained a student throughout his life , gave stipends to foreign scholars such as Grotius and Casaubon , and used to say that anyone who disturbed him before noon was no true scholar . |
| 14 | Mr Freeman was invited to the town by an all-party delegation of councillors who visited him in London in December . |
| 15 | Ms Tierney , of Victor Paul Terrace , Edinburgh , told a fatal accident inquiry in Dunfermline yesterday : ‘ On 15 August when he complained of blinding headaches I took him to my GP who referred him to Milesmark hospital in Dunfermline with suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage . |
| 16 | The baby , despite the fact that he has been denied his birthright of the care of deeply loving parents who created him in love , is as well cared for — ’ |
| 17 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 18 | This brought him into touch with George Bell , then Bishop of Chichester , and with John Marsh , the Congregational theologian , who invited him to Oxford . |
| 19 | There now appeared in Antwerp a charming young man with an Oxford degree , Henry Philips ; he soon won the confidence of the lonely Tyndale , who invited him to dinner and showed him his books . |
| 20 | There were people who provided him with houses — such as that in Bethany — which were comfortable and large enough to accommodate , at the very least , his immediate entourage . |
| 21 | His second outing was particularly encouraging , since the filly who beat him at Headquarters was none other than Henry Cecil 's Felucca , already a leading fancy for next year 's Classics . |
| 22 | In 1851 he began four years ' apprenticeship with his uncle , Dr Owen Roberts of St Asaph , who prepared him for Edinburgh University , where he spent two years at the medical school . |
| 23 | He says he 's now firm friends with the doctors who prepared him for freedom . |
| 24 | Among the men who had joined Dulé on Oualie were also many who resembled him in body , square-shouldered , chestnut-coloured men with good balance . |
| 25 | Since the Earl of Holland was ‘ a man of greater dignity than knowledge in the Lawes of the Forest , he was assisted at various times by judges of the common law courts who advised him on points of law . |
| 26 | Kama also bears the epithet The Bodyless , a reference to his ruin with the god SHIVA , who reduced him to ashes for an act of impertinence . |
| 27 | Murray 's club-mate , Tom McKean , has set his store on the World Indoors but first he has a personal score to settle with his GB team-mate , David Sharpe , who pipped him on Saturday to make it 1-1 between them indoors this winter . |
| 28 | The script was handed to him by Casper Wrede , a director friend from the Royal Exchange who directed him on screen in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . |
| 29 | King Vidor , who directed him in Man Without a Star in 1955 , said , ‘ I felt throughout the filming that Kirk was working himself up to being a director . |
| 30 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |