Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 6 interest in the Iran-contra investigation was renewed when a federal grand jury indicted Clair E. George , former chief of CIA covert operations , on 10 felony accounts accusing him of lying to and obstructing congressional and judicial investigations of the Iran-contra affair . |
| 2 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 3 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 4 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 5 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 6 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 7 | Charley asked him . |
| 8 | Father Devlin clapped him on the shoulder with a large heavy hand . |
| 9 | Devlin clapped him on the shoulder . |
| 10 | ‘ It is n't like that , ’ he began , but Ben interrupted him , a sharp edge to his voice . |
| 11 | He said he only needed to do two or three locums at these school clinics to see him round the other half of the world and he went off . |
| 12 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 13 | One day Mr Brownlow asked him to come to his study for a little talk . |
| 14 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 15 | The thought of having anything in common with William horrified him . |
| 16 | The problem this poses for the educationalist is formidable because , as well as designing curricula that will help the surveyor cope with future changes , he has also to provide the basis of a training experience to enable him to cope with contemporary practice . |
| 17 | Mary Pat Kelly met him first in the mop room of the convent where she was studying to be a nun . |
| 18 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 19 | The Nobel had afforded only a temporary alleviation of this condition : indeed , the abbreviated stay in Princeton , the rush back to England , and the trip to Stockholm made him feel worse rather than better . |
| 20 | The only occasion that the present writer met him was as a member of a deputation to appeal for troop protection for Protestant homes that were being stoned and shot into by the Provisional IRA . |
| 21 | When Roy Mason arrived in 1976 to take up his duties as secretary of state for Northern Ireland , the present writer met him as part of a deputation from my political party . |
| 22 | He took charge of his third club in almost as many months after Alex Ferguson recommended him to St Mirren . |
| 23 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 24 | Young women had travelled from all over the country during his trial to see him and meet him . |
| 25 | After he had told this tale at the hearings , Representative Tom Foley asked him : ‘ Those were not normal public actions , were they ? ’ |
| 26 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 27 | gave it to Tim and Tim holded it in the right he put it on the floor and Ian pricked him . |
| 28 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 29 | Even old Stalin Nicholson might be exhorting Gary this very minute , over egg and chips , recalling his days as fastest hod-carrier in the high-rise development before the lumbago got him . |
| 30 | Howe 's reputation as an animal painter was made when Sir John Sinclair of the Board of Agriculture commissioned him to draw details of various breeds of cattle , and he went on to paint hundreds more pictures , mostly of horses . |