Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] him [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
| 2 | The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar . |
| 3 | It transpires that the new tenant is Pris , one of the androids Deckard is hunting ( though John does not realise this until later in the story ) The presence of Pris excites him a great deal . |
| 4 | I 'm not a psychologist , but I read , and I would say that attitude gives him a colossal arrogance . |
| 5 | I mean you could use group investments , I mean what you did with the investment trusts gives him a better spread , |
| 6 | I butted in : ‘ But of course Martinez was right again — Harley starts to win and Martinez gets him a fat contract with Supersight . |
| 7 | Isabelle throws him a maternal gaze . |
| 8 | Perhaps his most inspired piece is the saga of Cosmo , the fairly accurate knife thrower , whose failure to see the point makes him the sharpest act in town . |
| 9 | His record makes him an outstanding candidate for an R Y A Award . |
| 10 | The rain brings him an end-of-time vision , solitary as his sense of humour , of flooding cellars and emerging rats . |
| 11 | GUIL throws him a second coin . ) |
| 12 | Er someone tells him that , a policeman tells him the best way to look at it is if you were locked out your house |
| 13 | The magistrate gives him a three-week remand in custody . |
| 14 | His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling . |
| 15 | Though a newcomer to 500s , the Aussie reckons the Honda gives him no other choice ( Doohan has even lowered gearbox ratios to encourage wheelspin to help turn the bike ) . |
| 16 | The 24th grand prix win of his career gives him a commanding lead in the world championship . |
| 17 | His academic background in mechanical and electrical engineering gives him a sound grasp of a broad range of scientific disciplines . |
| 18 | Carlos Sainz 's victory for Toyota on the Rally of Portugal last week gives him a 13-point lead in the world championship . |
| 19 | His detached , even , and quite uncontroversial manner makes him a valuable auxiliary of liberal thought . ’ |
| 20 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 21 | Service on many government bodies and on committees as varied as the British Council and the National Theatre gives him a wide range of contacts and a knowledge of the workings of Whitehall . |
| 22 | ‘ My heart is completely enchanted with all these pleasures , because it is so jolly on this journey , because it is so warm in the carriage and because our coachman is a fine fellow who , when the road gives him the slightest chance , drives so fast . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Even his ‘ classics with a twist ’ style makes him an obvious role model for this season 's slim suiting . |
| 25 | Mr Portillo 's promotion makes him the youngest Cabinet minister since Dr David Owen was appointed Foreign Secretary under Labour . |
| 26 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | Paul hands him a small glass . |
| 29 | Coleridge 's silence and solitude gives him an immediate affinity with this frost , and his work of meditation is also an unseen action . |
| 30 | East Germany 's ringing endorsement of his plan for speedy German unity makes him the strongest contender to lead the strongest power in non-communist Europe . |