Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 2 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 3 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 4 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 5 | The Prince regarded him thoughtfully . |
| 6 | Money fascinated him . |
| 7 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 8 | The archbishop of Besançon was summoned through the bishop of Langres ( an intentional slight ) for allowing papal messengers to be captured ; the bishop of Speyer on the same grounds and also for sending one messenger to the gallows ; the archbishop of Tarentaise for crowning Philip ; and the bishop of Passau , who had probably been the draughtsman of the Staufen protest , had a long series of charges brought against him — he had not delivered two million marks to the king of Hungary , he had not paid back the money given him by Richard I for his release — indeed , his crimes were so great , the letter said , that he could have been punished without trial . |
| 9 | On 26 March , back in Chicago , Coleman applied for a US passport in the name of Thomas J. Leavy , using the birth certificate given him by the CIA in 1982 and the documents issued in Washington . |
| 10 | Part of the confusion came from the unworthy pleasure given him by the prospect of holding onto his ward a little longer . |
| 11 | The leather seat ensconced him comfortably and the long broad bonnet stretching ahead was reassuring . |
| 12 | The President regarded him for a moment and Trent thought that the old man might rally . |
| 13 | Both districts selected him for their under-21 practice matches in January , but the youngster , who played for Ayr while he was still at Kyle Academy , opted for his home district , Glasgow . |
| 14 | And why had n't Ken told him he was writing too ? |
| 15 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 16 | What had Corbett told him about her ? they asked . |
| 17 | The guards called him Fou-Fou and me Andy . |
| 18 | His selkie blood called him back to the sea , though , and he became a sailor . |
| 19 | The President called him into the room . |
| 20 | Pound called him " my little marsupial " , " yew old Wombat " and so on , while Eliot replied in kind to " Ezzumpo " , " Dear Doc " , " Rabbit My Rabbit " . |
| 21 | According to Eric Clapton , he 's the finest touch player in the world ; John Lee Hooker called him ‘ the man with no ego ’ . |
| 22 | The reviewer called him a ‘ Joycean Hell 's Angel ’ who had created from the tawdry San Francisco Tenderloin district ‘ an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell ’ . |
| 23 | Her green eyes fixed him accusingly . |
| 24 | The Royal Institution appointed him Tyndall lecturer on volcanoes , and he won awards for photographic studies of mountains and glaciers . |
| 25 | Darwinian evolutionary thinking influenced him too , and his work on society is shot through with an evolutionary perspective , from the primal horde , a notion he derived from Darwin , to complex technological societies . |
| 26 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 27 | The Association awarded him a medal of honour in 1989 . |
| 28 | Skipper Malcolm Ring promoted him to No 4 in the batting order as they chased victory against a team from Doncaster . |
| 29 | The fact that both men had been at Livingstone Manor intrigued him . |
| 30 | The detective work fascinated him . |