Example sentences of "[noun] of [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine .
2 In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him .
3 ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse .
4 He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking .
5 Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath .
6 Vic keeps Baxter in suspense for a few moments , while he reviews the advantages of having him under an obligation .
7 Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others .
8 James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe .
9 She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely .
10 If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks .
11 Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker .
12 Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring .
13 ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place .
14 Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort .
15 It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career .
16 Having seen herself properly dressed again , she could not bear the thought of confronting him in the skimpy , shabby , ready-made clothes of wartime London .
17 But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat .
18 The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough .
19 The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present .
20 KEVIN Gallacher accused Norwich 's Chris Sutton of upending him with a professional foul and blasted : ‘ I 've seen people sent off for less . ’
21 Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner .
22 Guillaume was also disturbed by Modi 's unpredictable and unbusinesslike behaviour : ‘ the mere idea of asking him for a signature , which would have legalized a relationship , seemed ridiculous to me ’ .
23 A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July .
24 He could have kicked himself , however , for imagining that although Eleanor had kept to her promise of inviting him to a meal , the ‘ little party ’ she had proposed would actually materialise .
25 Sharing Gladstone 's high churchmanship , he was well qualified for the difficult task of reconciling him to the policy of Welsh disestablishment .
26 Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect .
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