Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pauline Kael reviewed him as the bloated Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , she said that what De Niro was doing was certainly something , but she 'd hesitate to call it acting . |
| 2 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 3 | Santerre was about to protest but Mandeville dismissed him with a curt move of his gloved hand . |
| 4 | Mountbatten 's task was not simplified when General MacArthur saddled him with the additional responsibility of taking over Indonesia and Indo-China , previously within the American sphere . |
| 5 | An ad in the Sevenoaks Chronicle led him to the white 1988 Sierra Sapphire 1.8 LX , advertised at £3750 . |
| 6 | To flesh out the story , the DIA provided him with a German mailing address , Postfach 1151 , Geilhausen 6460 , from which all correspondence , including anything from the DIA , would be readdressed to Coleman 's maildrop in Barrington , Illinois . |
| 7 | Drawing refreshed him as a long walk refreshed him , and it was part of the art of forgetting slights , frustrations , old wounds , so necessary if he was to survive and stay serene . |
| 8 | The second man ( who appears at the left-hand side of the composition , drawing back a curtain ) in one of the earliest sketches , carries a skull , and Picasso identified him as a medical student . |
| 9 | Creed directed him to a narrow sidestreet . |
| 10 | Complaining that a recent photograph showed him with an unrecyclable styrofoam coffee cup , he denounced it as ‘ politically incorrect ’ . |
| 11 | The priest measured him with a pitying look . |
| 12 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 13 | Bede welcomed him as a new Josiah , the king of Judah in whose reign a religious reform movement purified the Temple worship , but came to lament the decline , as he saw it , of ecclesiastical standards after the death of Aldfrith , sentiments echoed later by Boniface . |
| 14 | Both the porter and the guards welcomed him like a long-lost brother . |
| 15 | Grimma followed him across the chilly floor as more nomes filed into the shed and huddled apprehensively along the walls . |
| 16 | Edward observed him with a certain bitterness ; such simplicity of need could seem enviable . |
| 17 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 18 | The department sent him on an Assertive Course . |
| 19 | ‘ His usual spin took him to a private beach at the Dragonara Hotel in St Julien with Denis and Frankie 's sister Betty . |
| 20 | Foreigners viewed him as the typical Englishman , a bit of a dandy . |
| 21 | Grey eyes questioned him with the full seriousness of her young being . |
| 22 | Even following the assassination in February of the leading Nazi functionary in Switzerland , Wilhelm Gustloff , by a young Jew , the proximity of the Winter Olympics and foreign policy considerations confined him to a single and , in his terms , relatively ‘ moderate ’ , speech at the funeral , attacking Jewry in generalized terms as the stimulus behind practically every political ‘ martyr ’ of the Right since the Revolution of 1918 . |
| 23 | The whole interview reminded him of the English card game in which you not only had to guess what cards your opponent held , but decide what he thought yours were , and so on . |
| 24 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 25 | CD 's experiences as a reporter of Parliamentary debates for The Morning Chronicle left him with a profound contempt for the quality of the majority of MPs ( early reflected in such satirical sketches as Cornelius Dingwall in SB 47 , and Mr Gregsbury in NN 16 ) , and for the standard of debate and general conduct in the House of Commons ; in AN 8 , for example , he observes that ‘ farm-yard imitations ’ have not as yet been imported into the American Congress from the UK Parliament , and he satirizes Parliamentary oratory and manœuvres in LD i 34 . |
| 26 | Corbett entrusted him with a short letter in which he asked the King to supply simple answers to what Corbett considered simple questions . |
| 27 | Shamlou 's dark eyes held him in a contemptuous gaze . |
| 28 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 29 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 30 | Morse subjected him to a long unblinking stare before saying : ‘ There was no will in the safe and , according to the lawyer , it is unlikely that my father-in-law made one . ’ |