Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 2 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 3 | Sweeney 's name pronounces him of the lineage of a man who sold human flesh for butchermeat , a ‘ demon barber ’ . |
| 4 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 5 | Montag 's wife reports him to the Brigade and he is forced to flee , making his way to a place outside the city described by Clarisse , where a group of people have gathered together to memorise books , keeping the words immortal . |
| 6 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
| 7 | Cronenberg 's diagnosis sends him to the underground of the breed ; a secret tribe of shape changers and weirdos persecuted by the naturals . |