Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 4 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 5 | Lord Burlington also employed the services of an architect named Campbell , who built for him a beautiful temple , based on the Temple of Romulus in Rome . |
| 6 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 7 | He finds Miriam appealing and she holds for him the added attraction of being married and committed herself . |
| 8 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 9 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 10 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 11 | … 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 14 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 15 | Soon after coming of age , his ‘ hard conscience ’ towards his tenantry drew on him a judicial rebuke from the lord chancellor Thomas Egerton , Baron Ellesmere [ q.v. ] , and he steadily enlarged his estate by buying out minor gentry families in the vicinity . |
| 16 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 17 | He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal . |
| 18 | For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere . |
| 19 | The new myth , the myth of the siamese twins will make of him a forgotten bogey . |
| 20 | Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire . |
| 21 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 22 | Herluin advanced upon the altar very slowly , as though these few paces , and the climbing of the three steps , must be utilized to the full for prayer , and passionate concentration on this single effort which would make or break for him a dear ambition . |
| 23 | His loneliness had recently been underlined by the fact that Ramsay MacLure , having been kicked out by the painter and critic Robin Ironside , had moved in with Vaughan , forming with him a steady relationship that caused Minton to talk of finding his own house . |
| 24 | The King therefore saw Samuel before Baldwin ; and Samuel gave the advice which the Sovereign wanted to hear , namely that if MacDonald proved unable to carry his Cabinet , the best solution to the crisis would be a National Government , led by MacDonald , ‘ unless he found that he could not carry with him a sufficient number of his colleagues ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Very quickly this initial impression vanished as she recognised in him a dazzling personality , a person who had only to enter a room and the pace of things altered . |
| 27 | For his part , Petion was feeling no actual fear as such , but these trappings of a bygone age , which could represent good or evil depending on the choice of the individual worshipper , instilled in him a definite sense of wariness . |
| 28 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 29 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 30 | 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 |