Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | The hostile reception of Alford 's views led him to reflect that he was being denied the parliamentary right of free speech . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So now he walked , still angry with them , but glad to be away , glad to have salvaged something from yet another of their attempts to grind him down . |
| 6 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 7 | The more battles and the more kills an Orc has under his belt the more respect he earns from other Orcs , the more his enemies fear him , and the happier he will be . |
| 8 | The Pyramid Texts are concerned with the eternal life of the god-king and with the necessary rituals to enable him to join the gods and to travel in the boat of Re . |
| 9 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 10 | Straightaway , he made a niche for himself as our left-back , and his fearless diving headers made him a tremendous favourite with the Palace fans , who dubbed him ‘ Chopper ’ in recognition of his decisive interceptions with his unruly fair hair . |
| 11 | Gentlemen did n't clout their womenfolk about , beat them , bruise them , tie them up and whip them … or whatever jolly games Johnny 's preferences led him to pursue . |
| 12 | Clubs punished him for taking unauthorised time off , missing training and breaking curfew . |
| 13 | I 've spent hours and hours and MORE hours helping him to learn to read … ’ |
| 14 | The Mirror titles made him a Fleet Street figure to match his other interests . |
| 15 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 16 | He fought their attempts to carry him out with the strength of one possessed . |
| 17 | Three defences made him one of Britain 's most successful world champions ever before being dethroned by Wilfred Benitez in 1981 ( in a fight for which his purse was 400,000 dollars ) yet , curiously , he stayed at his terraced house in Stoke Newington , London . |
| 18 | Presumably they imagined their confidences led him to regard them with disgust or pity or contempt . |
| 19 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 20 | Sir Paul would be grateful if Commander Dalgliesh could spare a few minutes to see him . |
| 21 | Like thousands of others , he became fixated on the actor Montgomery Clift , going several times to see him in Red River Valley and detecting , accurately , homosexual tendencies behind Clift 's portrayal of the sensitive masculine ideal . |
| 22 | It was possible for the authorities to see him , at this level , as a figure of ‘ law and order ’ without a single criminal accusation that could be sustained against him . |
| 23 | For he was lost , in no one mind , in nothing but urgent , insistent needs — lusts lashing him into lunacy . |
| 24 | This rational presentation often follows a period of ingratiation through which the subordinate aims to get superiors to like him as a charming but intelligent expert . |
| 25 | His advanced views made him unpopular with many of the clergy . |
| 26 | King Henry IV proved not to be popular , mainly because he had to ward off constant attempts to usurp him , and all his energy was directed in that pursuit , so that he died at an age of less than forty-seven , in March 1413 . |
| 27 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 28 | Free from injury and in the mood , his vast array of skills make him one of the most feared attackers in the modern game . |
| 29 | If Ackerley derived any satisfaction from this rough , rackety , frustrated life it was in his work at The Listener , where his enlightened editorial policies make him sound like a reviewer 's dream ( he telephoned contributors at midnight to query the removal of a comma ) . |
| 30 | Although the heart of his empire was the Neville land , it would be wrong to cast Gloucester in the role of hereditary northern magnate , whose estates made him an independent regional force . |