Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of Malcolm McLaren 's collaborators at the time of the Sex Pistols , Jamie Reid gets a mention for persuading him of the importance of situationism , and Vivienne Westwood for producing a t-shirt slogan proclaiming how boring Derek Jarman 's Jubilee was . |
| 2 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
| 3 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 4 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |
| 5 | The reasoning behind casting him as the father in The Hooded Owl became clearer by the minute . |
| 6 | Valerie cut short further interior monologue by gracing him with a smile and saying , ‘ I just brought Lesley-Jane some home-made soup for the interval . |
| 7 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 8 | And he blamed another girl for getting him into the drugs scene . |
| 9 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 10 | Tom had been a great help in advising him on the farming aspects and , of course , on the teaching . |
| 11 | Today 's run in a handicap is a step up in class , but David Chapman , who trains at Stillington , North Yorkshire , has clearly brought about a change in the colt 's attitude since acquiring him from a Lambourn yard just two months ago . |
| 12 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 13 | The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital . |
| 14 | Let me breathe then , ’ she laughed , giving him a big hug before putting him to the floor . |
| 15 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 16 | His estates were , moreover , a heterogeneous collection , put together with an eye to providing him with an income rather than creating a political niche for him at a regional level . |
| 17 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
| 18 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 19 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 20 | After the revolution , Andrei 's starlet wife loyally tried to defend her husband by portraying him as an opponent of the Comrade and the victim of persecution , but this unoriginal line of defence is not borne out by the facts , except insofar as all the members of the ruling group lived precariously . |
| 21 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
| 22 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
| 23 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
| 24 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |
| 25 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
| 26 | Lewis added : ‘ Bowe 's stripping has robbed me of the chance of beating him in the ring . |
| 27 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 28 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 29 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 30 | A DUBLIN-BASED policeman has won a legal battle to prevent the Garda Commissioner from dismissing him from the force for allegedly offering a prostitute IR£30 for sex . |