Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 2 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 3 | Polls had until recently shown support for Mr Patten but now a majority wants him to back down . |
| 4 | The Russian poet mistakes him at first for a brigand of the woods , a political conspirator , or a charlatan trading in elixirs and arsenic . |
| 5 | He is represented as granting land at Hoo in Kent to an Abbot Ecgbald ( CS 89 : S 233 ) , and a grant of land at Farnham , perhaps dating to 686 , for the founding of a monastery reveals him with authority in Surrey ( CS 72 : S 235 ) . |
| 6 | This episode takes him across Western Turkey and the Mediterranean , on to Greece , and Rhodes ( where he meets astrologer Patric Walker ) before hitting Africa in the shape of Egypt and Luxor . |
| 7 | He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there . |
| 8 | EASTWOOD 'S FIRST American movie finds him as a modern-day Deputy who travels from Arizona to New York and finds his values challenged by a community represented by social workers , hippies and ulcer-ridden cops . |
| 9 | On the spiritual plane , the Beggar advises him to be reconciled to God 's will and his own lot in life . |
| 10 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 11 | If the reader 's research carries him beyond familiar legal fields into a large general library , he will find E.J. Dingwall 's How to Use a Large Library a useful guide . |
| 12 | As the frost descends , and in its ‘ secret ministry ’ of transformation makes icicles along the dripping eaves , Coleridge 's meditative mind carries him to the scenes of his childhood , and imagines for Hartley a future , not in the ‘ great city ’ , but ‘ beneath the crags/Of ancient mountain , and beneath the clouds ’ . |
| 13 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 14 | The barge carrying the body springs a leak , his ceremonial uniform is soaked as he frantically bales , he worries about the expensive watch which he has inadvertently left on the coffin , the ceremony leaves him with a bad cold which he tries , not altogether successfully , to hide when he is presented to the King . |
| 15 | The owner of a firearm is none the less owner because the law prohibits him from discharging it in a public highway ; the owner of a field does not cease to be owner because the public or a neighbour has the right to use a footpath across it . |
| 16 | Captain Richard Moore 's day begins as the ring of the telephone wakes him with a start from a deep sleep . |
| 17 | Shattered after losing his young second wife , he moved to Bath , then in its social heyday , where a benign-looking portrait shows him at seventy , grasping a book entitled Views of Painshill . |
| 18 | His cultural detective work leads him through aesthetic , anthropological and medical discourses about ‘ race ’ and sexuality , specifically as they were articulated around the figures of the female Hottentot and the prostitute in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Perhaps his anxiety leads him to be excessively shy and almost apologise for his existence . |
| 20 | Corsie 's great escape keeps him on title trail |
| 21 | An elderly gent wandering the streets talking to himself about his secret wedding to his ward tomorrow ( because the plot requires him to be overheard so she 'll find out ) is the sort of thing you can only get away with in opera . |
| 22 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 23 | Mean Malcolm whistles at him , an old lady helps him over the road , teacher expects his writing to be tidy and he has to read the part of the spineless Rapunzel . |
| 24 | After prosecutors presented evidence that he had money stashed away in overseas accounts , it was ruled that Mr Dixon must stay in jail until the judge sentences him in February . |
| 25 | Iago 's refusal to answer that question puts him outside human society for ever . |
| 26 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 27 | But when his boss chases him for , you know information or whatever you know . |
| 28 | Its left wing accuses him of collaborating with scandal-tainted parties , after he agreed that PDS members should join Mr Ciampi 's government . |
| 29 | Sybillin 's learning curve takes him to Leicester on Monday week , but hopes of running at Kempton Park on Boxing Day look unlikely to be realised . |
| 30 | The second disc finds him in the company of an enlarged band , basically his regular four piece augmented by the likes of keyboardist Chuck Leavell , Phil Palmer on guitar , percussionist Ray Cooper and singers Tessa Niles and Katie Kissoon , running through pieces like ‘ Wonderful Tonight ’ which at nine minutesplus is somewhat overextended . |