Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
| 2 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 3 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 4 | Next week the feet that danced on canvas will stamp on pedals in the Lombard RAC Rally , but even the loudest engine roar can not drown out the fear that haunts him . |
| 5 | But this means to say that he has no rule that takes him one way rather than another in a new case . |
| 6 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 7 | He hits his irons particularly sweetly , a talent that serves him well at Hayling , Hampshire 's only links , where still days are few and far between . |
| 8 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 9 | When the platoon is ambushed , Barnes shoots Elias and leaves him for dead . |
| 10 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | ‘ They do like this , ’ and he pulls his son 's woollen hat over his eyes and frisks him . |
| 12 | Driving for the 555 Subaru World Rally team , he ended the 3-day event 7 minutes ahead of his nearest rival and leaves him in 6th place in the World drivers table . |
| 13 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 14 | Much of his career in fact seems to have been devoted to Amazon-slaying , but it is significant that if heroes like Heracles represent the revolt of the son against the phallic mother then they also give evidence of their dependency on her when we find our hero forced to don women 's garb and do women 's work as proof of his love for the Lydian queen Omphale , while she wears his lion 's skin , brandishes his club and spanks him with her slipper if his handiwork does not please her . |
| 15 | Italian giants Inter Milan are understood to be watching the situation closely , with Pearce hoping Clough changes his mind and puts him more in line with the kind of wages being picked up by some of his England team-mates . |
| 16 | Showing none of the great dignity of a Pharaoh , he runs to meet Jacob , embraces him , falls on his neck and kisses him . |
| 17 | He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away . |
| 18 | He helps Crawford 's character , Jim Fenn , who also wants to play the cornet in the band but does not have one , to buy the instrument and gives him lessons . |
| 19 | Suddenly , one of his recordings sounds just like one of his stupendous live performances and shows him for what he really is : one of the all-time great conductors . |
| 20 | The fish then returns to the rear of the boat and snares him . |
| 21 | His business licenses him to fraternise with the enemy and casts him in the role of a Microsoft independent software developer-come-OEM , complete with an early access copy of Microsoft NT . |
| 22 | Martyn Goff was repeatedly amazed by his knowledge of books and recollects him quoting from Shakespeare and Moby Dick at length , whilst simultaneously rolling his eyes in parodic style . |
| 23 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 24 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 25 | He 's wearing a crisp white shirt that makes him look tanned . |
| 26 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 27 | And he oh that 's , that 's a free life for them , you punch it and it 's the ghost that kills him , you ca n't get away from the ghost . |
| 28 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 29 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 30 | His refuge for the hunger strike will be the Swindon pub that pays him to lecture to punters on Plato . |