Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 2 | The present writer owes him a particularly deep debt of gratitude . |
| 3 | If he does not declare an intention to defend the action or make an offer , the second date , known as the calling date , is the date on which the claimant can ask for a Decree from the court declaring that the debtor owes him the sum sued for . |
| 4 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him a lot of work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or a contractor with the company in administration , but all these will be relevant factors , together no doubt with many others . |
| 5 | Det Sgt Stimpson said : ‘ She searches him every time he comes home or goes out , and she keeps his bedroom bare of the usual toys and clutter so that she can see at a glance whether he has hidden any stolen property . ’ |
| 6 | I would suggest she baths him every four weeks in Vitacoat Gold Seal and uses Velvet coat spray on his feathers and skirt every day . |
| 7 | His regular visits to the hospital for treatment finally ended in 1991 but a psychiatric nurse still visits him every fortnight to help him with the bouts of depression he suffers . |
| 8 | He , say , needs a new roof on his house , so he checks how much he has in his account , gets a roofer to do the job , and writes him a cheque in pints . |
| 9 | Similarly in He loves her ; She loves him the form he is replaced by him after loves , while her becomes she after loves . |
| 10 | Grown-up in his own fisherman 's kingdom , his cruelty brands him an emblematic villain . |
| 11 | His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling . |
| 12 | But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere . |
| 13 | He is firmly established in the half back line , which allows him the luxury of being able to press forward in support of his attacking colleagues . |
| 14 | ‘ He has , you must agree , a remarkably clear idea of policy , if the topography of God 's Kingdom at times eludes him a trifle . |
| 15 | Somebody passes him a J but he just hands it on to me . |
| 16 | Finally , B would fail to comply with the maxim of Manner , enjoining clarity of purpose , if , when A needs a bolt of size 8 , B passes him the bolt in a box that usually contains bolts of size Jo . |
| 17 | The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List allocates him a reign of three years , with one variant reading of two , but Bede also says that Caedwalla reigned for two years before his abdication in 688 ( HE IV , 12 : V , 7 ) ( see also above , p. 51 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ For Mr Hubbard its a hobby which costs him a lot of money . |
| 19 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 20 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 21 | Moses appeals to God , who shows him a shrub growing at the spot . |
| 22 | These tears are both a veil for the eyes and a screen for the transcendent mind , which isolates man from his environment and shows him a land of ecstasy and delight . |
| 23 | His lightness of finger and transparency of texture win the day , while the slow movement shows him a poet to his fingertips . |
| 24 | I do n't pay them too much attention cos I 'm busy , but I think Marie shows him the letter she got this morning . |
| 25 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 26 | and she er she said what and she said oh well I do n't think I 'll phone Graham but if Maxine shows him the paper , she said I reckon he 'll phone them because er , it did say , I think in the paper that the , that she said they 're letting everybody know |
| 27 | Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals . |
| 28 | It affords him a wonderfully mellow role as a dying man reunited with his family in his beloved south of France in the last weeks of his life . |
| 29 | The other one bullies him a bit |
| 30 | She takes him to a tailor ( hence the gorgeous green suit and bowler hat ) , hires a tutor and even buys him a car . |