Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He well recalls a couplet about him in The Times : ‘ He was right , dead right , as he walked along ; but he was just as dead as if he 'd been wrong . ’ |
| 2 | Less the arm the figure is complete in itself , but it was part of a larger whole : a four-horse team , the charioteer in the car holding the reins , possibly the dedicator as a warrior behind him on the ground or mounting , probably a groom at the horses ' heads ( a small-scale arm was found , as well as scraps of the horses ' legs and tails ) . |
| 3 | On one occasion my father sent a runner to him in the Danakil country with an important letter . |
| 4 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 6 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 7 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 8 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 9 | It stands on the site of Wedgwood 's first factory , and has a statue of him over the porch , as well as a series of elaborate reliefs and friezes . |
| 10 | There 's a statue of him on the table too . ’ |
| 11 | Owen was buried in the churchyard at Newtown , and there is a statue of him in the town 's memorial park . |
| 12 | He believes appointing Crerand was ‘ the second biggest mistake of my life , ’ and claims that the ex-Celt tried to pick a fight with him in the toilets at a function after Manchester United 's unsuccessful FA Cup Final against Southampton in 1976 and dismisses Crerand as a player who had a jealous envy of greater talents . |
| 13 | Philip heard a noise behind him in the trees . |
| 14 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 15 | In 1696 Lowther of Lowther , tired of contesting elections , employed his cousin to seek a viscountcy for him from the king . |
| 16 | ‘ Randy 's got a slower pony in this chukka , who wo n't like Dopey taking a piece of him in the line-out one bit . ’ |
| 17 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 18 | It must have been a worrying time for Titfords and Hasteds alike , not to mention the rest of the inhabitants of the densely-populated riverside parishes ; the victims of the killer — or rather the remains — were laid to rest in a corner of St George 's churchyard , while the murderer himself , who eventually committed suicide , was buried with a stake through him at the top of Cannon Street where the newly-built Commercial Road crossed . |
| 19 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 20 | Anonymously , Miliutin launched a campaign against him in The Bell . |
| 21 | Those interested in seeing more of the sculptor 's work can visit a museum to him in the village of Sacre Monte , just north of Varese , where he died in 1950 . |
| 22 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 23 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 24 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 25 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 26 | I have served a place for him at the head of the queue to buy shares in the privatised NIE . |
| 27 | The past rejections he had been able to live with ; there was always the hope that one day , sooner or later , there would be a vacancy for him within the Russian Space Programme . |
| 28 | He kept his mind completely still , it was like something preserved , like something in a jar in a laboratory , but his body came undone and shook , there was a sound inside him like the sound tracks make when a train 's coming , that hiss and crack the length of his veins , that shudder in his blood . |
| 29 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 30 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |