Example sentences of "and [art] [noun sg] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Padding the streets and prying into the window of a man 's life , and the trail turned him towards the second-floor flat of Mrs Angela Holly ( née Wells ) , two miles from the home of her former husband and parents-in-law . |
| 2 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 3 | As we tunnelled our way through the steep rhododendron-canopied paths at Aros , Alistair said the rain , the humidity and the terrain reminded him of his ‘ spell in Assam during the War . |
| 4 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 5 | Can Mr Mitterrand , even as the opinion polls condemn him and the press mock him as a king on the eve of his dethronement , be about to try one last grand jeu before he really ‘ quits ’ . |
| 6 | She 'd known he would follow Didi as soon as the ring was found and the American wanted him by her side , but still his words brought such pain that for a moment Luce thought she 'd moaned aloud . |
| 7 | If someone wants to become a shareholder and the company wants him to , he will be entered on the register and issued with a share certificate without more ado . |
| 8 | He knew that Franca and the nurse regarded him with hostility . |
| 9 | From there he begged a lift in a bomber belonging to the Desert Air Force , and the crew flew him to Udine — he had been very glad of his sheepskin coat and boots . |
| 10 | There was a vicious crack like a pistol-shot and the lash struck him across the back , splitting open the shirt , tearing the skin . |
| 11 | People were very angry when Admiral Byng failed to attack the French at Minorca , and the decision to execute him for cowardice was exactly what the public wanted . |
| 12 | Then when it had grown enough God brought the baby out and the mother took him in her arms . |
| 13 | It has to be recorded that in spite of all his precautions he sometimes fails to make his getaway in time and the female eats him after all . |
| 14 | The doctors are then faced with a situation in which the patient has made no decision and , he by then being unable to decide for himself , they have both the right and the duty to treat him in accordance with what in the exercise of their clinical judgment they consider to be his best interests . |
| 15 | He probably can not accept another man in John 's bed , and the puppet reminds him of that . |
| 16 | The phone rang , and the operator connected him to Stockholm . |
| 17 | He shouted , and a voice answered him in Welsh . |
| 18 | His bedclothes were changed and a nurse helped him into a theatre gown . |
| 19 | Arran accepted the inevitable , and made way for Mary of Guise , in return for various financial inducements for himself and his family , and a discharge securing him from any actions against him for anything he had done during the period of his regency . |
| 20 | Firemen and a passer-by dragged him to the bank after cutting his trapped legs free from the canoe . |
| 21 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |
| 22 | We do swear — ’ He paused , and a murmur followed him with some clearer , harsher voices audible amongst it : ‘ We do swear — ’ He went on : ‘ Never to swerve , ’ and they said it together , ‘ Never to swerve — from our present path — till we have cleansed the country — or this oppressive Act . |
| 23 | A penalty and a conversion took him to 403 , still within sight of John Liley 's record of 439 with three weeks of the season left . |
| 24 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 25 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 26 | The League ruled that the striking off of Grima from the Widnes register and an attempt to replace him with the Tongan forward , Boblyn Tuavao , was ‘ unacceptable ’ . |
| 27 | Pascoe had now told the police what he had told her , about a fierce row with MacQuillan on Thursday and an attempt to confront him on Friday . |
| 28 | He kept the man 's airway clear and blood circulating until the plane landed and an ambulance took him to hospital . |