Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 2 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 3 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 4 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 5 | My hon. Friend the Member for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) made the sort of eloquent and well-informed speech that we have come to expect from him every time . |
| 6 | After a drink she might enjoy slamming to him the suggestion that Steve and Maria Luisa might get back together again . |
| 7 | Jones tried to put before him the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 8 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 9 | But he has brought with him the Furies who appear at key moments of the action — the spectral creatures whose gaze he can not endure but whose presence he understands , since he believes he has murdered his wife . |
| 10 | US sources in London insist that Mr Clinton has put behind him the resentment over Conservative involvement in the US election . |
| 11 | Seventhly , if within five years before his election or since his election he is convicted of an offence and has passed upon him a sentence of imprisonment ( whether suspended or not ) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine . |
| 12 | He has left behind him a flamboyant monument in Wellington church , Somerset , and the channel known as Popham 's Eau in Cambridgeshire , which was abandoned at his death in 1607 . |
| 13 | The reading of my Botanick Essays and the Experiments he has successfully made in pursuance of what I have advanced there has created in him an earnestness to correspond with me . |
| 14 | Also , if I were to try to explain to him the nature of my personal circumstances , he would be embarrassed . |
| 15 | His first-class education , his wide experience of engineering around the world , combined with the speed and clarity of his mind , made conversing with him a delightful privilege . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 17 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 19 | Who had seen enacted before him the last skirmish in the war which had now given him his own longed-for kingdom of Cyprus . |
| 20 | And once her nephew-in-law sought her out to ask whether she would like to discuss with him the forthcoming Derby and which horse was likely to win the race . |
| 21 | As Minton 's relationship with the Roberts deteriorated he began to gather round him a gang of male students at Camberwell who became known as ‘ Johnny 's Circus ’ . |
| 22 | … the circumstances are such that any reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence , then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most elegant formulation of principle was given in Coco v Clark ( AN ) ( Engineers ) Ltd where it was said that if a reasonable man standing in the shoes of the recipient of the information would have realised that upon reasonable grounds the information was being given to him in confidence then this should suffice to impose upon him the equitable obligation of confidence . |
| 24 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 25 | I remember hearing about him a lot earlier , when an American film producer , Hal E. Chester , said to me , around the time Michael was making Two Left Feet , that he had seen ‘ a young James Stewart called Michael Crawford ’ and to watch out for him . ’ |
| 26 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 27 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |
| 28 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 29 | ‘ The defendant had been personally negligent in that he had failed to take such steps and make such inquiries as would have revealed to him the defects in his structure and the risks of fire thereby occasioned . ’ |
| 30 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |