Example sentences of "[prep] him [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm Froggy 's only relation , and I reckon I deserve the money after looking after him every winter for years . |
| 2 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 3 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 4 | One of Isambard 's advance party , and by the cut of him a man of importance . |
| 5 | Make sure that he has in front of him the names of new members of the committee , so that he can welcome them . |
| 6 | Captain R.K. Montgomery RE — an old friend of Bill Pritchard and like him a coordinator of demolition squads in the raid — moved them further away . |
| 7 | Whatever the exact circumstances , it is at least clear that Eliot vacated Carlyle Mansions quickly and deliberately — and that he left behind him a man to whom he had been a companion for ten years . |
| 8 | And he was gone , a trenchmac thrown round his shoulders , hurrying across the yard and along the old cloister that led to the exit , leaving behind him a trail of aromatic blue smoke . |
| 9 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 10 | ‘ … as they pass the three-furlong marker , it 's still the Guppy , who 's made every yard of the running , behind him a group of horses led by the grey Prince Charming , Cy McCray has yet to move on Breakdancer , Shine On has an awful lot still to do … ’ |
| 11 | He left behind him a town in uproar and the foundations of his fame , for he had been recognised while in Whitehaven and his identity had been confirmed by the Irish deserter . |
| 12 | He was standing in a pool of blood and water and behind him a line of bloody footprints marked his painful progress from the showers . |
| 13 | He left behind him a picture of a fast vanishing age of innocence and of an idyllic riverside life , be it by Thames or Fowey , a picture that will last for ever . |
| 14 | He set off for the Canal Turn in glorious isolation while behind him the rest of the field manically tried to salvage some hope from the disaster . |
| 15 | Behind him the door of the house whose occupant he had just been interviewing had been dosed with considerable firmness . |
| 16 | Behind him the engine of his new red Rover was still running — a barely audible hum . |
| 17 | To his right there was a McDonalds ; behind him the lights of the Charing Cross Hotel glowed in the darkness . |
| 18 | US sources in London insist that Mr Clinton has put behind him the resentment over Conservative involvement in the US election . |
| 19 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 20 | He carried with him a memory of the perplexed , thoughtful look on her face . |
| 21 | ‘ I went out with him a couple of times when I was at the Sorbonne . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I went out with him a couple of times . |
| 23 | Old Parnham knows the count from past times and had dinner with him a couple of days ago . |
| 24 | It was also clear , however , that on this point he would be unable to carry with him a majority of his colleagues . ’ |
| 25 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 26 | We 've experimented with him a bit over the years , and I think we 've got it about right now . ’ |
| 27 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 28 | Dr Jaffery had with him a proof of the new translation of Inayat Khan 's Shah Jehan Nama while I had brought a leather-bound copy of Bernier 's Travels . |
| 29 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 30 | Complying with her appeal , Dada abandoned his kedgeree and , sucking his moustache inwards always with him a sign of annoyance he picked up the viburnum , still with its precious burden , opened the bottom sash of a long window , and flung out the double butterfly as viciously as if it had been a slug in the salad . |