Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 2 | He then ordered a car to call for him the next morning for a similar occasion and was felled by a stroke while waiting for the lift . |
| 3 | I even bought a set of those flash cards with pictures and words such as Cat , Dog , Rabbit , Mummy and Daddy in my attempt to awake in him a hunger for knowledge . |
| 4 | To consider the issue in greater detail , the only circumstance under which his omission to treat his patient further could render him guilty of manslaughter is where he has failed to act in a situation where the criminal law imposes on him a duty to act and death has ensued . |
| 5 | Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier . |
| 6 | The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows . |
| 7 | A well-made pension plan inspired in him the same emotions as an estate-bottled single-vineyard wine of a good year , and about the same amount of waffle . |
| 8 | Any asylum seeker brought with him the possibility of retribution against the shrine and its local town or city from his enemies , as Gregory discovered on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | He was going home , and home meant to him no more and no less than the room where his mother was dying . |
| 10 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 11 | The judge had before him an application by a father made under the provisions of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction which comprise Schedule 1 to the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 . |
| 12 | This committee suggested to him a policy that included a tribunal to fix the labourers " wages . |
| 13 | Boutros Ghali , last Monday , I took the opportunity to suggest to him the need for more action in Somalia . |
| 14 | Monteverdi had composed no operas since 1630 ; now the Grimani commissioned from him an Adone ( lost ) for Giovanni e Paolo ( 1639 ) and the Vendramini inaugurated their San Moise the same year with a revival of Arianna . |
| 15 | A relieved Russian establishment conferred upon him the title of ‘ the Blessed ’ . |
| 16 | Lissa thrust her belongings back into her jacket , bending her head to hide from him the secretive smile that touched her lips . |
| 17 | The other has about him a ring of nostalgic failure ; in his time everything was good , but it ended in failure both personally ( for Fróthi was killed ) and ideologically ( for Fróda 's son returned to the bad old ways of revenge and hatred , scorning peace-initiatives and even apparently his own desires ) . |
| 18 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 19 | Gran talked about him a lot and , Ruth guessed , thought about him even more . |
| 20 | John C. Francis ( of the Athenaeum ) recorded that , ‘ I had occasion to call on him a short time before his death , when we joined in a hearty laugh over his former furious attacks upon the Athenaeum . |
| 21 | could not have been happier , both personally and in creating an atmosphere conducive to his work … the domestic ideal that is evident in his writings ( the family being his favourite subject of study and lecturing ) was most clearly represented by his own home life … his wife created for him the respectable and quiet familial existence which he considered the best guarantee of morality and of life . |
| 22 | In 1886 he was elected FRS although he had no academic degree until 1910 , when he delivered the Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford and the university conferred on him an honorary D.Sc . |
| 23 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 24 | The alternative was to wait a further two or three years until a civil case could reach a hearing in the overcrowded Northern Ireland courts and then to endeavour to fight it with the state using against him the formidable privileges and stratagems available to it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 27 | The old man stared at him a moment , then nodded . |
| 28 | The most we can claim is that his social situation and his physical deterioration induces in him a condition that approximates the classical clinical picture given of schizophrenia . |
| 29 | As soon as the door closed behind him the WAAF tiptoed over to me . |
| 30 | The Colonel elaborated on the straightforward business of the reference section of the Ministry preparing for him a dossier on the British nuclear weapons programme . |