Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his family was one of well-established county gentry , Roger 's position as a younger son probably justified the description of him in the Vita Edwardi Secundi as by origin ‘ a poor and needy knight ’ . |
| 2 | Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown , and there is a statue of him in the town 's memorial park . |
| 3 | ENGLAND cricket captain Graham Gooch will be able to put his and wife Brenda 's marriage problems behind him on the team 's tour of India , his father claimed last night . |
| 4 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I was n't entirely open with him at the Archdeacon 's meeting . |
| 6 | Among these creators of new states none is quite like Ho Chi Minh who , despite having the spotlight of publicity turned upon him by the world 's press , remains in many ways a mystery man . |
| 7 | Tchaikovsky wrote The Seasons for the monthly journal Nuvellist , whose editor had the bright idea of commissioning 12 pieces from him for a year 's issues , each of them to depict some aspect of the month in question . |
| 8 | For an instant , too , a detached sense of pity welled up inside him at the body 's seeming frailty in the face of its task ; could the slight , sloping shoulders carry the heavy burdens of leadership , the thin arms and bony wrists hold a long steady course ? |
| 9 | But the girl remembered Ramsey taking the evacuees round him in the children 's corner , and sitting on one of the low chairs meant for a child , and talking to them naturally and with an obvious pleasure . |
| 10 | He then passed quickly through the crowd , eyes studiously on the ground , black gown folded round him like a rook 's wings . |
| 11 | They would be waiting for him at the train 's next scheduled stop , the guard would see to that . |
| 12 | And tell the chamberlains to have an apartment made ready for him in the King 's Tower , the best they can offer . |
| 13 | The driver of the truck sent to meet Charles and his baggage at the railhead south of Arras , had told him that Lord Christopher — Charles did n't ask the surname — was waiting for him in the Officers ' Mess of 2nd Grenadiers . |
| 14 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 15 | Standing there beside him at the water 's edge , she looked down at his reflection , next to her own in the still , clear water . |
| 16 | When the cart was ready , he called Gabriel to sit beside him on the driver 's bench . |
| 17 | With his lovely wife Eva beside him in the co-pilot 's seat , Dan Knight was the only one of the original ten crew members aboard . |
| 18 | Mr Christie , backed by the campaigning organisation Liberty , yesterday announced he was making a formal complaint to the European Commission on Human Rights over the routine interception of telexes sent to him at the STUC 's Glasgow headquarters by a special unit within GCHQ . |
| 19 | And we talked to him about the Intercity erm presentation requirements , and sent him away to think about it . |
| 20 | There on the television monitors was a body lying alone in the middle of the track with his seat still strapped to him like a pilot 's parachute pack . |
| 21 | How differently did it appear to him from the Berelands ' assessment ! |
| 22 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 23 | In the more likely event that the seller makes a loss on the resale , he can claim that loss from the original buyer as damages together with any other damage caused to him by the buyer 's failure to pay . |
| 24 | All the time Wyn lived next to him in a nurses ' home , helping every day on the long haul to some form of recovery . |
| 25 | The following is one of many references to him in the Society 's centenary history : Undoubtedly the activity of Mr E J D Abraham , with his fund-raising ability and flair for promoting the organisation , has led to much of our present security . |
| 26 | Arran had to promise to destroy the ‘ contract and bond ’ made to him concerning the queen 's marriage , and discharge all noblemen who had consented to it — a considerable number , according to the letter written to the dowager by John , son of lord Somerville , in October 1545 . |
| 27 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 28 | In his role as the world 's Central Banker , a position bestowed on him by the dollar 's reserve currency status , he can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 29 | He glanced in to find Nadine Cunningham smiling at him from the driver 's seat . |
| 30 | Mr Lawrie , who now lives at Dunshalt in Fife , has gone to the Court of Session in Edinburgh to clear his name following allegations levelled at him after the bank 's crash . |