Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad .
2 Her mission was to request some drawings from him for the opening show of her London gallery , Guggenheim Jeune .
3 Also ask him for the telephone number of the Home Service Adviser for your area , in case you need further advice .
4 His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories .
5 Devlin , in fact , was watching him through a bead curtain at the rear .
6 After spying him through the kitchen window with Mrs Files , so much himself , so much not Francis , I thought I did n't want to see him at all .
7 Your reward , as carer , is knowing that you have done your best to make the patient comfortable and happy , and to help him through the recovery process from his illness , however long it takes .
8 ‘ I do n't think he slipped , Mowbray would have been too careful , and I doubt he would have let someone push him off the parapet walk without a struggle . ’
9 After spending a few months gauging public reaction , West Mercia Police intend to use him as a kerbside deterrent against speeding .
10 Although in school activities Ernest was energetic and successful , twice he ran away from home before the Kansas City Star was joined by him as a cub reporter in 1917 .
11 Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man .
12 He was actually no more than a deputy , but John always used him as a sounding board for his new ideas and always considered his advice very carefully .
13 James Macrae was an intelligent boy and as soon as he was old enough , Hugh McGuire got work for him as an errand boy in Ayr .
14 A video image of Dale Kunzler , 10 , from Todmorden , West Yorkshire , is projected upside down on a screen behind him during a video workshop at the ‘ Let's Make A Film ’ Festival held at the National Museum of Photography , Film and Television in Bradford at the weekend .
15 Addis Ababa is guarded by about 20,000 troops , including President Mengistu 's Praetorian guard , which saved him during the coup attempt in May .
16 Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting .
17 Willis was much more cheerful and said it reminded him of a boarding house in the old days . "
18 A windy night , is n't it ? ’ he says — which is self-evident as you shiver , peering at him past the security chain on the door while struggling to keep yourself decent .
19 ‘ Oh , thank you ! ’ she said , but her smile withered at the sight of his expression and she trailed after him towards the car park without a word or a glance at the others .
20 Anger could sweep across him like a storm cloud in fast motion and burst all about him in a fury of violently well-picked epithets .
21 As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it .
22 Burun nodded to a mounted trooper who galloped after the boy , guarding him like a mother hen with a chick .
23 His injuries were so severe his own father who found him near a railway footbridge at Didcot Parkway did n't recognise him .
24 A big drive down the 15th left him with a metal wood to the green and two more putts for his four .
25 An accident in 1957 left him with a metal plate in his head , but the vehicle licencing authorities were well aware of the fact and Mr Collett held a PSV coach driver 's licence .
26 ‘ A friend made contact with the chief of the tribe , ’ Steven explains , ‘ who presented him with a bone replica of the throne from which our logo was made . ’
27 They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping .
28 Hamill , who has dropped back to 34th place in the Challenge Tour order of merit following his recent two-week break , had a three-under par 68 in the third round to leave him with a tournament aggregate of 210 , seven shots behind leader Frederick Larsson of Sweden .
29 He worked with Smeaton on the improvement of the Aire and Calder river navigation , and assisted him with a canal survey in Ireland in 1773 .
30 He married secondly , in or after 1533 , Tibbilda , widow of William Billing , and thirdly , in 1551 , Katherine , widow of Richard Mody , who survived him with the infant son of the marriage .
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