Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CBI , the British Institute of Management and the Institute of Personnel Management have all put to him the same point about single-union agreements . |
| 2 | They 're looking at Wilson 's character , which was quite a , a peculiar one , in both senses of the word , and not just peculiar in the sense of , of , you obviously need to him a peculiar sense of kind of funny , funny peculiar . |
| 3 | But civil strife and political violence , the quick and easy expedients of the gun and the bomb , already had for him a romantic and almost Byronic aura . |
| 4 | His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks . |
| 5 | Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured . |
| 6 | These attitudes transposed easily to the Commonwealth point of view , class warfare and nationalist agitation both arousing in him the same confidently emollient response . |
| 7 | It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France . |
| 8 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
| 9 | Now stealing from him the natural flesh ? |
| 10 | I could tell him anything , even share with him the contradictory motives within my personality , and he would still love and accept me . |
| 11 | The governor expressed his disillusionment in letters to Penn and others : ‘ the hosts of mosquitoes are worse than armed men , yet the men without arms [ are ] worse than they ’ ; and attacked what he saw as Quaker hypocrisy : ‘ each praying with his neighbour on First Days , and then preying on him the other six ’ . |
| 12 | I then quoted to him a remarkable analysis of how drivers must use their minds . |
| 13 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |