Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point dogs catch him and one of them nips him on the leg — take that for being more popular with the boss . |
| 2 | Does a man do murder because a mate of his riles him in a pub or because he 's got more money than he has ? ’ |
| 3 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 4 | Also , I have found Mr Hauser has a Lear jet which flies him across the world plus a Sikorsky helicopter which I saw taking off from the grounds of Livingstone Manor . |
| 5 | Alternatively , a person may place himself in a dangerous position which exposes him to the risk of involvement in the accident in which he is harmed . |
| 6 | The visitor of the last stanza comes ‘ more violent , more profound , / One soul , disdainful or disdained , ’ and in the condition of the year-spirit or , ‘ his shadowed beauty stained / The colour of the withered year ’ , to go to a death which places him in the position of savage sacrifice and , for he is surely related to the saints of Eliot 's other early poems , martyr ‘ Self-immolating on the Mound ’ . |
| 7 | This was Il Giasone ( 1649 ) which shows him at the height of his powers in the melodious aria with violin imitations ( e.g. Jason 's ‘ Delizie contente ’ , Act I , SC.2 ) , in drama ( e.g. Medea 's conjuration , Act I , sc . |
| 8 | In fact , he has usually been regarded as the supreme Minimalist painter , but perceptions have been changing through a closer study of his earlier work which reveals him as an artist whose origins lie in painterly Abstraction . |
| 9 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |
| 10 | SIMON McCRACKEN , a 21-year-old fullback , has made the jump from fourth division Blackwood to first division Newport in a style which stamps him as a player to watch . |
| 11 | The rule that delivery and payment are concurrent conditions ties in with the unpaid seller 's lien ( see Chapter 12 ) which entitles him in the absence of contrary agreement to retain the goods until payment . |
| 12 | But it is his run at Ayr last April which puts him in the picture for it showed that he had no trouble with a marathon trip as he stayed on strongly to beat Dalkey Sound carrying 11 stone in the Scottish National . |
| 13 | He can , then , only withdraw into his own culture which provides him with a sense of lived connections for his experiences but these are bounded by his enterprise and separate from the larger society . |
| 14 | But whether man 's inward mind patterning , which provides him with the capacity for verbal language , is underlain by a subtle and universal language of meaning to which we all relate when using verbal language , is an interesting possibility I discussed in The Web of Life . |
| 15 | Heroes : Augusto Odone , who refused to accept there was no cure for his son , and Nick Nolte , who plays him in the film Screen drama : Michaela Odone , played by Susan Sarandon , nurses her son Lorenzo , Zack O'Malley Greenburgh , in a moving scene from Lorenzo 's Oil Prof John Sargent : helped pioneer treatment |
| 16 | Later she sprays him with an atomiser . |
| 17 | She blames him for the break-up of the coterie . |
| 18 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 19 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 20 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 21 | She takes him to a tailor ( hence the gorgeous green suit and bowler hat ) , hires a tutor and even buys him a car . |
| 22 | When she takes him into the living-room there is a kind of roar , and a man emerges from the background of people and easy chairs , and advances upon Howard , his arms outstretched , his deep , dark eyes raking back and forth over Howard 's face , soaking it in with eager amazement . |
| 23 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 24 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 25 | She tells him about the street she was brought up in , its granular asphalt pavement ridged with long wavering bulges where they had been dug up to get at the gas and water mains , and overhung by waterfalls of laburnum , with front gardens marked off by low walls , some of them in crenellated brickwork , some in pebble-dash with decorative chains dipping above them that you could set swinging , one after another , as you walked by . |
| 26 | Therefore he is asking for trouble , and he receives it suddenly and in full measure , above the groundswell of heckling , at the hands of a divinity student who reminds him at the top of his voice about Fedka , a dangerous escaped convict now roaming ‘ our town ’ and originally a serf of Stepan 's whom he sold into military service to pay a gambling debt : |
| 27 | She follows him through a courtyard at the back , under an archway , and then on to a rough grass path that disappears into the trees . |
| 28 | Frank Peter Zimmermann is a fine artist , a most gifted player , who delivers admirable accounts of these three different Violin Concertos. he also has the advantage of committed and clearly well-rehearsed support from a very good orchestra under a talented conductor who follows him like a cat . |
| 29 | Edgar , on the other hand , has his father 's nature who saves him in the disguise of ‘ poor Tom ’ . |
| 30 | You see , he 's got thousands of titles and things , and she likes him into the bargain ; also she wants me to be presented at court next year — as his wife . |