Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The report says ‘ Mr Zappala 's … experience … along with his civic activities make him an ideal candidate for the US embassy ’ . |
| 2 | For this , Italian fanzines make him a perfect Italian boy ( ‘ Mamma is my true sweetheart ’ — Max Magazine ) . |
| 3 | His Etonian vowels give him a peculiar aural resemblance to Brian Johnston of Test Match Special ( imagine Johnners talking about what an axe can do to the flesh and you will have some idea of just how disorienting this is ) . |
| 4 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 5 | MINISTER David Mellor 's toes might thrill Antonia de Sancha — but Britain 's teenagers find him a right turn-off . |
| 6 | On his first night back , his parents give him a party , to which they invite their circle of middle-class , middle-aged friends . |
| 7 | A ‘ stringer ’ is n't just a freelance — it 's a correspondent based away from head office whose local contacts give him an on-the-spot usefulness which far surpasses that of a reporter sent out from head office . ’ |
| 8 | Apart from his own native predecessors ( principally Condorcet and Comte ) , and the post-Kantian German philosopher , J. G. Fichte , there are many parallels ( as well as differences ) in the ideas of the English schoolmaster , inventor , philosopher and Fabian , Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , whose exceptionally voluminous writings make him the father of British sociology . |
| 9 | For further details bung him an SAE ( see ‘ Contact Points ’ box for address ) . |
| 10 | Certain value added tax cases would tend to indicate that the amount of benefit obtained by a taxpayer if the trustees allow him the use of a Ming Vase would equate to the sort of rent which they could have received if they had let the vase with appropriate adjustments being made for insurance , agreeing to house the vase , etc . |
| 11 | What he does see is a crippled lama living in extreme simplicity and frugality in a mountain hermitage , whose being is irradiated with a joy which has an even keener edge because his infirmities offer him no possibility of escape . |
| 12 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't really want Fabbiano to find out that one of his little girls cost him a whoppin' big order . ’ |
| 14 | Nine wins and four draws from thirteen games give him a score of 11 points , three points ahead of Viktor Korchnoi in second place . |
| 15 | It rankles Couples , who had two three-week breaks last year , that many critics rate him an uninterested under-achiever and that he has failed to win more tournaments because he is so laid back . |
| 16 | His critics call him a charlatan . |
| 17 | His enemies call him an ‘ ambulance chaser ’ . |
| 18 | Kit Everard had his men raise him a sleeping pavilion on the eastern bank across the creek from the saman tree where he had established his strategic headquarters . |
| 19 | The speaker was an undoubted first-rate man whose achievements make him the greatest British theoretical physicist since Maxwell and one of the great figures of twentieth-century culture . |
| 20 | He has also declared ambitions for the World Championships at Saalbach , where two falls cost him the World Cup overall title in his great year of 1987–88 , and for the overall slalom title he has lost twice to the German , Armin Bittner . |
| 21 | Peter admits his looks make him a target for casuals , the designer thugs who constitute one element in urban violence . |
| 22 | SAVE : 3+ ( A Savage Orc 's protective tattoos give him a save equivalent to light armour . ) |
| 23 | Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year . |