Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’ |
| 2 | It would have been nice , however , if the band had informed Gannon of the decision to fire him before the rumours spread through the Mancunian underground . |
| 3 | None the less the king did summon the officers of the Exchequer to join him in Oxford ; Pye 's colleague , who was also his ‘ comptroller ’ and administrative rival , the clerk of the pells , obeyed this call . |
| 4 | Also , like the liquidator , the administrative receiver can compel those involved in the affairs of the company to provide him with information relating to the company 's affairs and is also obliged to report to the Secretary of State if he forms the opinion that the conduct of a director makes him unfit to act as a director of a company . |
| 5 | Brown 's unpredictability and his refusal to endorse Clinton led to attempts by senior members of the party to prevent him from addressing the convention . |
| 6 | It is one of the two arguments I will examine that are advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify him in overriding or disregarding the expressed view of his patient . |
| 7 | At one moment the boatswain Jack Allgood comes out of a berserk rage to realise that he , a warrant officer , has allowed his hatred of the captain to lead him into mutiny ; the points of physical detail enforce his emotional agony : |
| 8 | Changing the shape of the team to accomodate him with Chapman and Wallace was , I 'm sure , a contributory factor to the team loosing its way last season at the start of last season . |
| 9 | A passage in Lord Diplock 's speech is generally regarded as the classic exposition of the meaning of legal malice : " What is required on the part of the defamer to entitle him to the protection of the privilege is positive belief in the truth of what he published … |
| 10 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 11 | Is it not an attack upon the integrity of a man to alienate him from those actions which spring from his deep convictions in order that he might fit in with utilitarian calculations ? |
| 12 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 13 | Corbett hurriedly dressed , refused the kind offer of a horse but accepted the services of a guide to take him through Edinburgh to the castle . |