Example sentences of "[verb] him [art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took the bank almost two months to write him a curt letter saying it was not interested . |
| 2 | So I found him a small house called Kirk o'Field , outside Edinburgh . |
| 3 | I found him a clean scarf to hold over his face . |
| 4 | The dealer found him a difficult artist to deal with . |
| 5 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 6 | Again Heston held a good deal of creative control over the enterprise , and made his point to Caulfield by writing him a firm letter telling him to be on time or else . |
| 7 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 8 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 9 | First , the firm must not indicate that the customer would be a customer of a UK office and , if the customer is a private customer , must give him the prescribed disclosure warning him that all or most of the FSA protections will not apply . |
| 10 | But Huxley condemned Vestiges as meaningless verbiage and was unwilling to support the basic idea of evolution unless someone could show him a natural mechanism to explain how the process could work . |
| 11 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 12 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 13 | He helped Willie into the back and threw him an old rug to cover himself with for he still looked terribly pale . |
| 14 | When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow . |
| 15 | The Goblins wait until the enemy are close by , and then push the Fanatic out towards the foe , giving him a good shove to start him off in the right direction . |
| 16 | If he fails to do so , the mortgagee will be entitled to an order of foreclosure absolute , the effect of which will be to vest the mortgaged property in him absolutely , but at the same time to prevent him — even if the property should prove insufficient — from claiming payment from the mortgagor , except upon terms of giving him a fresh right to redeem . |
| 17 | For if they vote with John Major next Wednesday , they will have played a crucial part in giving him a fresh mandate to break his election promises . ’ |
| 18 | The expert will in most cases want each party to send him a written submission accompanied by copies of the documents referred to or relied on in the submission . |
| 19 | Amiss made him a deep bow followed by a noiseless , but enthusiastic clapping of hands . |
| 20 | ‘ He was an expert on Russian affairs — as much of an expert as MPs get to be on anything — and they made him a junior minister to add credibility to their soft-line policy . |
| 21 | Then I made him a little tent to sleep in , but for a few weeks I always took my gun to bed with me . |
| 22 | It was that experience , allied to his next job as arts minister , that made him an obvious choice to become Major 's first Heritage Secretary . |
| 23 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 24 | I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . " |
| 25 | He has , however , given him a psychotic compulsion to formulate fanciful similes . |
| 26 | At his home at Tackley in Oxfordshire , his parents have given him a special shed to play in , with his own lock and key of course . |
| 27 | The Great Exhibition of 1851 brought him an excellent opportunity to expand his business and he seized it with relish . |
| 28 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 29 | If you can tell him the whole town pays for itself , that 's far more impressive than — ’ |
| 30 | It took him a long time to recover . |