Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Farrell recoiled , not from the verbal tirade but from the rank stench that wafted over him every time Dashwood spoke . |
| 3 | However , he was also imbued with papal influences that came to him no doubt from his Roman and " papal " background , from Pope Gregory VII and from St Bernard in his tremendously important address to Eugenius III . |
| 4 | I conceive of Kant as one saddened by Hume 's cold logic that destroyed for him the laws of causation in the physical world . |
| 5 | That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day . |
| 6 | Sport ; , I will argue , can have a most stimulating , uplifting impact on the participant and instil in him a fresh thirst for achievement in sporting and other circles . |
| 7 | ‘ You have my sympathy , admiration and best wishes , ’ said the Count , and parted from him a minute later . |
| 8 | In his heart the boy Jaq vowed vengeance against daemons and against psykers who were conduits for daemons for stealing his parents from him and bestowing upon him the honour of being raised by missionaries . |
| 9 | It had happened again while he was screwing his resolution to go and see a certain man in London and make to him an excessively embarrassing confession which justice demanded . |
| 10 | The capricious blaze , devouring the easiest fuel , hissed between them and drove them apart , and Isambard came leaping through it , grinning like a demon and bringing with him a shower of sparks and the smoky , scorching odour of hell . |
| 11 | Modigliani declined as politely but suggested to Lunia that she should come to his studio and pose for him the following day . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal . |
| 14 | Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 . |
| 15 | I thereupon telephoned Haines to tell him of my success and to urge upon him the necessity for extreme discretion , since what I had done was something of an embarrassment and I did not particularly wish to have my role publicised . |
| 16 | But — ’ and here she sighed , ‘ Lily darling , I could look and look at him the whole day … ’ |
| 17 | The next day Neville Chamberlain called and rehearsed with him the defence which Hoare proposed to make to the House of Commons on Thursday , the 19th . |
| 18 | Ken was a great fan of the then Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Ramsey , and talked about him a great deal . |
| 19 | It was to hound and hasten Leonard 's waking thoughts , eliminate any residual interest he may have possessed in mere intellectual commitment , and open to him the stark reality of life downtown . |
| 20 | Mr Beckenham looked down upon him from his superior height and handed to him the lady 's portmanteau . |
| 21 | He looks up , the script said , and sees above him the huge , luminous eyes of a monster . |
| 22 | Events which begin by offering the boy exciting adventure end by teaching him — about people , about statecraft — and confirming in him the steadfast loyalty to the Empire which is evident in his later exploits . |
| 23 | Another building was found in 1864 by Farrer 170 yds to the north-west of the ‘ villa ’ and called by him the ‘ Capitol ’ . |
| 24 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 25 | In 1933 it was suggested that Mosley should visit the new German leader , Adolf Hitler , and discuss with him the future of Fascism in Britain . |
| 26 | He had left Russia soon after the Revolution and brought with him a choir of émigré singers ; they called themselves the Don-Kosaken-Chor . |
| 27 | She nodded and looked at him a little wickedly . |
| 28 | She rested her head back on the pillows and looked at him a bit desperately . |
| 29 | She walked across to Georg and looked at him the way she looked at Gesner . |
| 30 | The visitor came from Surrey and brought with him a bat , which was duly presented to me — my first cricket bat ! |