Example sentences of "him [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had lost her love , and in her cottage was a woman preparing a possibly sapphic salad ; so Lydia gave him the works . |
| 2 | Though he had served as a diplomat in both London and Vienna he owed little to the ideas of the Enlightenment : his favourite author was Molière , not any eighteenth-century writer , and under him the works of Voltaire and Montesquieu , as well as Hobbes , Locke and Spinoza , were banned . |
| 3 | ‘ We call him the Eel … ’ |
| 4 | The fiasco started when a letter was delivered to his home in Barnet , Herts , earlier this week informing him the £9.41 cheque would not be honoured . |
| 5 | His map of Derbyshire at a scale of one inch to a mile , begun in 1763 and published in 1767 , won him the £100 premium offered by the Society of Arts . |
| 6 | Her father-in-law watched her , sleepily , admiringly , then asked for one too ; she handed him the fruit whole . |
| 7 | To his horror , Legia — obviously inspired by American television — decided to make him the $6m man , a fee which inevitably frightened off even the wealthy Italians . |
| 8 | He longed to see the majestic height of a nobleman 's banquet hall and to eat swan stuffed with capons and quail as his mother had told him the gentry did . |
| 9 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 10 | Despite their unfaithfulness to him the people chosen by God continued to dream of deliverance , and their songs spoke of an anointed one who would champion his people in the lists and free them from oppression and enemy occupation . |
| 11 | Wayne 's grandparents , Ken and Pat Peckham , paid just £1,700 for Champ whose marathon exploits quickly made him the people 's champion . |
| 12 | Give him the dice . |
| 13 | Universal , who had advanced him the $850,000 were even prepared for the fact that it challenged the American Dream and attacked American society for ‘ destroying itself ’ , told through its hero — played by Dennis — who is a Hollywood stunt man devoured by his quest for big cars , swimming pools and gorgeous girls . |
| 14 | However , when a one-time tenant called to say his possessions had been seized to pay his debts , Sheridan gave him the £300 which the man said would restore him to his former state . |
| 15 | . Do you know that card you bought him the duck ? |
| 16 | I have initiated him into the ‘ Secret Doctrine ’ , opened his centres of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers . |
| 17 | The pilot of a Fuji aircraft at about 500 feet agl on finals , who believed he was number four to land , saw a Cherokee type aircraft approaching him on a collision course from his 10 o'clock ; to him the aircraft appeared to be level or slightly high and under power , and his passenger saw the Cherokee 's landing light flash . |
| 18 | Moreover , Labour councillors do not defend their actions ; they put the county treasurer up to do it and then give him a £4,000 salary increase . |
| 19 | The sale also gives him a £49m profit to pay for acquisitions . |
| 20 | Top contender Henry Akinwande will not be available for domestic service until the summer , being booked for a Commonwealth title fight against New Zealand 's Jimmy Thunder in March and a European re-match with Germany 's Axel Schulz in Berlin on 1 May , which will net him a £75,000 purse . |
| 21 | An office cleaner went on a betting spree after a TSB error gave him a £10,000 bank overdraft , Liverpool Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 22 | As the Empress Eugénie remarked : ‘ It was for him a cannon ball that he dragged at his feet all his life . ’ |
| 23 | The Oxfam man took pity on him and brought him a pair from stock . |
| 24 | On his birthday Auntie Lou gave him a pair of leather gloves with fur linings and Mr Evans gave him a Holy Bible with a soft , red cover and pictures inside . |
| 25 | " We could give him a pair of spectacles , " Eddie suggested . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , she said he needs some new pyjamas — his old ones are so worn through they 're hardly decent — so I went out and bought him a pair . ’ |
| 27 | Ace handed him a pair of canisters . |
| 28 | Mrs Sargent had bought him a pair of shorts and some little shirts ; Emmie washed these herself because Mrs Hellyer , though kind and willing , was unskilful — clothes came out of her wash-tub a uniform grey , and crumpled . |
| 29 | He 'd only sustained minor injuries and the drummer had patched him up and given him a pair of free tickets for an anniversary concert in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 30 | At a secondhand shop they bought him a pair of rather tight jeans and also acquired a metal detector , opening up a whole range of possibilities . |