Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ford , 20 , is technically on loan from Rotherham until the end of the season , but the Millmoor club are giving him a free transfer . |
| 2 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |
| 3 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 4 | It had given him the chance to go on talking to and getting to know children and he was sure he would know if a boy was telling him the truth . |
| 5 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 6 | Keynes was influential in persuading King 's to make him a fellow , despite his criticisms of Keynes 's A Treatise on Probability ( 1921 ) culminating in his ‘ Truth and Probability ’ ( 1926 ) , the classic paper that laid the foundations for modern subjective interpretations of probability and related theories of games and decision making . |
| 7 | Willy-nilly , he was now the star of The Hooded Owl , and the rest of the cast were giving him a taste of the treatment afforded to stars . |
| 8 | Folklore insists that the best way to lure a usually male journalist to a gig is to offer him a drink . |
| 9 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 10 | Carrie was taken by surprise at his question and her first instinct was to give him a sharp reply , but she nodded instead , catching the look of concern in Don 's deep brown eyes . |
| 11 | To encourage the basically extrovert person to develop his praying in a way more suited to the introvert is to do him a disservice , and since many books on prayer are written by introverts we can quickly fall into this trap . |
| 12 | He could be wild and crazy at times and she had n't faced up to the fact that the way he lived his life was doing him no good , no good at all . |
| 13 | James was foiled mainly by the determination of the European powers , including the Warrior Pope Julius II , to fight one another instead , and certainly not by any substantial doubt on the part of his subjects that a king from Scotland was overreaching himself ; indeed , his popularity was to bring him an enormous Scottish army for the campaign against the English in 1513 which ended in the disaster of Flodden . |
| 14 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 15 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 16 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |