Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lincoln University awarded him an Honorary Doctorate ( 1951 ) his delight was obvious . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it was a stroke of luck when a friend scrapping an old Volvo car gave him a complete system to fit to his tractor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 6 | Miss Merchiston flashed him a scornful glance . |
| 7 | Aberdeen University awarded him an honorary DD in 1895 . |
| 8 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 9 | He filled this post and served his fellow deaf with such distinction that Archbishop Ramsay appointed him an Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral in 1966 . |
| 10 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 11 | Norman 's seven-birdie course record gave him a one-shot lead playing the 18th , but he should have known his chance had gone with Faldo having won two Augusta titles in extra time . |
| 12 | Mr Brownlow bought him a new suit and new shoes , and Oliver 's dirty old clothes were given away . |
| 13 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 14 | Friends and colleagues past and present got together at the Brunswick Arms in Stamford Street to give him a big send off . |
| 15 | President Sékou-Touré gave him a warm welcome . |
| 16 | The Williams team gave him a quick change of tyres … but not quick enough to prevent Patrase and Senna fly past into the lead . |
| 17 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 18 | But Mr Major will now just see Mr Bush to bid him a personal farewell from office . |
| 19 | When he reached the front , Mr Saleb handed him a huge ledger over the top of the grille . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The golden touch : Australian lock John Eales — whose domination of the line-outs earned him the Man of the Series award — steals a march on Doddie Weir as Willie Ofahengaue lends him a helping hand … |
| 22 | Brother Cadfael brought him a warming drink , and a draught to settle his stomach , and they left him to sleep it off . |
| 23 | Willie Noolan gave him a distant wave ; Ted Morgan did an almost military about-turn when he spotted him and disappeared through the door ; even Jacko Roberts seemed to consider his offer of a drink with more sardonic suspicion than usual . |
| 24 | Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance . |
| 25 | A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society , Paul Damari has 25 years experience of the weather business , and his down-to-earth , common-sense approach makes him a welcome change to the distant and expensive alternative , the Met Office . |
| 26 | Jarvis , who was getting out at the next station , asked where they would be the following night ; the man who said his name was Jed Lowrie told him the Metropolitan , the Hammersmith Line . |
| 27 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 28 | Sharon claimed that he been humiliated diplomatically on May 2 when the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp refused him an official meeting . |
| 29 | First a mix-up in the West Ham defence gave him a clear sight of goal , but Ludek Miklosko threw himself at Smillie 's feet to save . |
| 30 | His $95,000 runner-up cheque gave him a clear $25,000 margin over Greg Norman . |