Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peron needed the union movement for support and , indeed , it was the labour movement who brought him back from exile and won him the presidency . |
| 2 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 3 | He waved the clerk to a seat and served him a cup of watered wine . |
| 4 | There was nothing short of taking the chap by the scruff of his neck and showing him the street that would have done the trick . |
| 5 | His purchase of the Kemsley newspaper chain was a step in the overall process of press concentration and gave him a Fleet Street prize , The Sunday Times . |
| 6 | No wonder his chairman , Sam Hammam , has hit the roof and called him a mosquito brain . |
| 7 | Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm . |
| 8 | I slipped into my jogging gear and handed him a sweater to wear . |
| 9 | The British Museum agreed to get him a permit and to give him a grant , in return for any antiquities he might discover . |
| 10 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 11 | having seen Frank playing in our Norwegian ‘ premiership ’ — i can only say : this guy has talent and give him a couple of more years on his neck he will become a real threat to any defence . |
| 12 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 13 | Their leader grabbed the bridle of Corbett 's horse and asked him a question he could not understand . |
| 14 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 15 | I called on the editor and sold him the idea that I should write the feature on my province ‘ Saskatchewan ’ , which I did , thus earning $30. towards the expenses of my Vancouver holiday . |
| 16 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 17 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 18 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 19 | She pressed her nose to the window and gave him a wave . |
| 20 | Herbert agreed to pay his passage and give him an allowance until he could find work . |
| 21 | It was a 3-iron approach from 214 yards which hit the flag and left him a putt of only two feet . |
| 22 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 23 | She took him to the Science Museum and gave him an encyclopaedia , which explained how the internal combustion engine worked — ‘ I was intrigued immensely ’ . |
| 24 | I 'll have to wait until Bluebeard 's in a mellow mood and tell him the truth . |
| 25 | It merely broke his fall and carted him a couple of miles up the road . |
| 26 | When they had gone , Cramer used the phone in the garage to put through a call to Sir Harry Marriott at his home and give him the news — the phone was more secure than a police radio band . |
| 27 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 28 | But his bulk , along with his broad , malleable face , was virtually his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in the finest bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 29 | Schellenberg leaned across the desk and offered him a cigarette . |
| 30 | Athelstan turned to the porter and tossed him a silver coin . |