Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards ' brilliant support play earned him four tries before the break and six in the second half to take his season 's tally to 15 — six ahead of Halifax centre Greg Austin . |
| 2 | ‘ Do we have any contingency plans to get him out ? ’ |
| 3 | Mr Clinton claims new , higher estimates of the US government 's budget deficit forced him to sharply revise his election platform . |
| 4 | It was a short-lived success , and the principal landowners in both East and West Sussex forced him out in 1820 by putting up one of his neighbours , Curteis of Windmill Hill against him . |
| 5 | The look Maria gave him was inimical . |
| 6 | The look Madeleine gave him would have withered anyone other than her brother . |
| 7 | According to teletext , he is set to move for 2.7 million , text also says that it is a boardroom decision to sell him , he is currently in talks with Kenny daglesh . |
| 8 | It was housed in the belvedere , a word that Ernest insisted meant ‘ bell tower ’ even after his sister Cecilia told him its correct meaning of ‘ beautiful view ’ or ‘ beautiful to see ’ . |
| 9 | The primrose yellow suited him , she thought . |
| 10 | Ken particularly liked the story Orton told him about a man he had picked up in a lavatory and asked him if he did it often . |
| 11 | A letter by Bedworth , found in his bedroom , encouraged other young computer addicts to copy him . |
| 12 | Angry , embarrassed and under close guard , he was flown to London where a Ministry of Defence car rushed him to Ramsgate , in Kent . |
| 13 | The opening scenes of this fractious heist movie see him at his most acute . |
| 14 | Charles 's boyhood sufferings taught him a patience far removed from defeatism , reinforcing Christianity 's message that to be humbled was the prelude to triumph . |
| 15 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 16 | He moved up to the bar but the darts club chairman intercepted him . |
| 17 | But surgeon Fred Nath operated on Bogdan after Convoy Aid Romania flew him into Teesside Airport in January . |
| 18 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 19 | His fears of not making the grade evaporated when ITV talent scouts spotted him wrestling on the amateur circuit . |
| 20 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 21 | Although the team had been instructed by the Scottish team doctor to avoid taking any medicinal substances which might be banned by the laws of the game , Johnson frequently took either smelling salts or the mild psycho-motor drug Reactivin at club level to make him more alert when he went out to play . |
| 22 | " I 'm required by the reporting rules to tell him . |
| 23 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 24 | Then a hammer blow struck him below his left shoulder blade , and he was punched violently to the ground by the heavy .32 slug . |
| 25 | A talent scout heard him sing — actually it was at that performance at the Hall . |
| 26 | It may be pure conjecture but he gives the impression that he knows the words to The Sash and could sing them backwards , and it was hardly surprising when football fans nicknamed him ‘ Agent Orange ’ . |
| 27 | A conventional classics education at the equivalent of anOxbridge college brought him to Paris . |
| 28 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 29 | I mean you could use group investments , I mean what you did with the investment trusts gives him a better spread , |
| 30 | Hitch accepted the cup of tea Carol offered him , looking at her as she turned her back on him . |