Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles 's boyhood sufferings taught him a patience far removed from defeatism , reinforcing Christianity 's message that to be humbled was the prelude to triumph . |
| 2 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 3 | His regular drawing practice gave him a solid understanding of the structure of the human head and hands , and he is unique amongst 18th century British painters for his custom of making detailed preparatory drawings for his portraits . |
| 4 | I mean you could use group investments , I mean what you did with the investment trusts gives him a better spread , |
| 5 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 6 | He expanded this idea at his next job interview , and finally his obsession with debt paid off : the aid agency offered him a position . |
| 7 | Lawyer A gave him a lot of advice about what was reasonable , but it was not invariably accepted . |
| 8 | His golfing prowess earned him a series of length golfing tuition articles in the Standard . |
| 9 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
| 10 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 11 | He was , he told Greta Burkill , intent on persuading the Cambridge University recruiting board to offer him a place on an officer training course . |
| 12 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 13 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 14 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 15 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 16 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 17 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 18 | Norman 's seven-birdie course record gave him a one-shot lead playing the 18th , but he should have known his chance had gone with Faldo having won two Augusta titles in extra time . |
| 19 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 20 | His only blemish on the front nine was at the second hole dropping shots at 14 and 15 brought it to four under but a good birdie at 16 and a level par finish gave him a 66 and the course record by two shots . |
| 21 | Lack of sleep , food bolted too quickly , the heat and the night jogging gave him a dark-eyed expression of endurance . |
| 22 | This newspaper business bothers him a lot and he spoke with force . |
| 23 | A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society , Paul Damari has 25 years experience of the weather business , and his down-to-earth , common-sense approach makes him a welcome change to the distant and expensive alternative , the Met Office . |
| 24 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 25 | On this occasion Swift brought him a gift of £20 from Bolingbroke . |
| 26 | His Italian background and film-star looks made him the appear like an Al Pacino character or the Sicilian reincarnation of a Scottish footballer . |
| 27 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |
| 28 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 29 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 30 | His $95,000 runner-up cheque gave him a clear $25,000 margin over Greg Norman . |