Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 2 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 3 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 4 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 5 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 6 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 7 | GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast . |
| 8 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 9 | Britten invests him with a memorable sententiousness of utterance , something one might call proverbial if such a word could apply to melodic line . |
| 10 | When Arkesilas IV had succeeded Battos IV is unknown , but Pindar addresses him as a young man in 462 . |
| 11 | The kid steps in and Ali stabs him with a well-timed jab that 's as sweet as a bite from the last tangy apple of autumn . |
| 12 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 13 | Long before New York 's Whitney Museum mounts its own assessment in 1994 , the present exhibition introduces him to an European audience . |
| 14 | Cain kills Abel — it is a short step from rebellion to bloodshed — and God condemns him to a nomadic life , but provides protection against death . |
| 15 | Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as |
| 16 | The shop owner gives him to a little girl who needs him and cares for him . |
| 17 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 18 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 19 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 20 | A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse . |
| 21 | The allegorical figure of Holy Church sets him on an inner journey as she teaches him that the object of his being is to discover a natural inward knowledge of a love for God that is greater than any other preoccupation . |
| 22 | Great Britain skipper Garry Schofield is still out with a hamstring injury and Kiwi Mercer joins him with a damaged ankle . |
| 23 | He argues that freedom of choice makes a man responsible for his actions while the capacity to reason about those choices places him under a continuing obligation to take responsibility for those actions . |
| 24 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 25 | Those who think of Pound as a great liberator from stiff and hidebound conventions will be disconcerted to find that Newbolt on the contrary treats him as an academic formalist . |
| 26 | Yet the final image of him working with plague victims transforms him into a heroic character . |
| 27 | One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 . |