Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One very small point of procedure is worth noting : at a first glance at this example there appears to be a redundancy of the indication pp , but on closer examination it is seen that it has never been used unnecessarily , for where it appears on the same line of the score in two successive bars the first of the pair of instruments whose parts are written on that line enters alone , and the second joins him in the next bar . |
| 2 | One historian places him with the revolutionary underground : he entertained James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , in 1680 , was eyed by the Rye House plotters in 1683 , and briefly arrested in 1685 . |
| 3 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 4 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 5 | It frees him from the awkward contortions of hand and wrist that make violin lessons and practice all too necessary . |
| 6 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 7 | Tradition anachronistically proclaims him as the first pope — the first ruler of the Church which was to enshrine Paul 's triumph and constitute an edifice of Pauline thought . |
| 8 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 9 | Charles 's only alternative was to use royal lands to " buy " support : a long historiographical tradition casts him as the archetypical squanderer of the fisc . |
| 10 | Relations between the Prime Minister and Nigel Lawson may still be strained ( she blames him for the present difficulties ) . |
| 11 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 12 | This not only allows him to indulge in more of those awkward movements , which make his first solo such a wonderful parody of classical dance , but shows him as the pathetic clown , always the butt of everyone 's laughter . |
| 13 | It is a piece that shows Strauss 's deep understanding of nature , and , again , it shows him as the great master of the musical epilogue . |
| 14 | The golf fan , if he notices the caddie at all , probably just sees him as the anonymous person who carries the superstar 's bag and is , incidentally , a walking billboard for the sponsor . |
| 15 | So that which makes man vulnerable to the force of the leaping devil , also opens him to the effortless strength of the leaping God which is known through the experience of inadequacy . |
| 16 | In the General Prologue the Reeve is thus described : and : and the Host responds to the serious reflections of the Reeve 's Prologue accordingly : But the Host too has appropriated a character , as judge and ruler of the tale-telling game , that takes him beyond the predictable attributes of his normal station in life : while in the fiction of the Tales , the Miller has just been attributed with the strengths of the court poet Chaucer as a narrator . |
| 17 | Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban . |
| 18 | ‘ And I am sure that a mighty host awaits him in the Next World . ’ |
| 19 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 20 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 21 | Instead , she guides him to check his suggestion and when he realises that he is not successful , she skilfully involves him in the final solution to the problem . |
| 22 | Rather it will be a case of the researcher finding a means of recording and sorting the mass of detail which continuously bombards him and presents him with the lateral possibilities which make the discipline potentially dangerous . |
| 23 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 24 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 25 | It identifies him with the Norman cause and the Norman heir , which becomes a threat if Duke William is successful . |
| 26 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 27 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 28 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 29 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 30 | In terms of an artist who discovers the meaning in the making of a picture , he is , I think , the superior artist , and that Picasso really only matches him in the Cubist paintings where the meaning is found in the material in an extraordinary sense , with dapplings and little markings and so on . |