Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 2 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 3 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 4 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 5 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 6 | The boy or girl was not ‘ a blank piece of paper on which the teacher should write ’ , and it was in this liberal spirit that he condemned drill : ‘ Military drill fashions him to an approved standard as part of the machine ; whereas the aim of Scouting is to develop his personal character and initiative . ’ |
| 7 | Long before New York 's Whitney Museum mounts its own assessment in 1994 , the present exhibition introduces him to an European audience . |
| 8 | The shop owner gives him to a little girl who needs him and cares for him . |
| 9 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 10 | A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse . |
| 11 | The allegorical figure of Holy Church sets him on an inner journey as she teaches him that the object of his being is to discover a natural inward knowledge of a love for God that is greater than any other preoccupation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Those who think of Pound as a great liberator from stiff and hidebound conventions will be disconcerted to find that Newbolt on the contrary treats him as an academic formalist . |
| 14 | 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 . |