Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No baptism has been traced , though his marriage certificate records him as the son of John Crockford , schoolmaster . |
| 2 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 3 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 4 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 5 | He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The teaching and life style of John the Baptist identifies him with the prophetic tradition in Israel . |
| 8 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The recipient confirms receipt of the message to the carrier , and following this confirmation the carrier provides him with the private key . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Captain Richard Moore 's day begins as the ring of the telephone wakes him with a start from a deep sleep . |
| 13 | A RECENT photograph of Kingsley Amis shows him with a cat , which is standing beside his typewriter . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 16 | In the story of the rich man and Lazarus , the rich man 's wealth insulates him from the poverty and the suffering of Lazarus . |
| 17 | Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself . |
| 18 | GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast . |
| 19 | His examination of a number of important constitutional conventions leads him to the conclusion that they are united in character by the possession of a single purpose — to secure that Parliament and government are ultimately subject to the wishes of the electorate . |
| 20 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Declan rates him as a very good defender and I 'm sure can tell us more . |
| 23 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 24 | Turning on him , Headstone drags him into the weir where they both drown ( OMF passim ) . |
| 25 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 26 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 27 | ALAN Healsey 's wife meets him at the back door of their home every night with a dressing gown . |
| 28 | Britten invests him with a memorable sententiousness of utterance , something one might call proverbial if such a word could apply to melodic line . |
| 29 | The other sees him as a collaborator with the forces of oppression . |
| 30 | Ali lowers him to the ground , holding his left hand , and tries to get him to walk . |