Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This committee suggested to him a policy that included a tribunal to fix the labourers " wages . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A relieved Russian establishment conferred upon him the title of ‘ the Blessed ’ . |
| 7 | Gran talked about him a lot and , Ruth guessed , thought about him even more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The letter in his hand aroused in him a sense of urgency that offset his fear of the narrow enclosed footpath known locally as Dead Man 's Alley . |
| 11 | He was shown the location of the bathroom and toilets and the nurse discussed with him the extra hygiene measures which he would require to prepare him for surgery . |
| 12 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 13 | A client bought from him a large quantity of shares in an infamous CTC stock which went bust . |
| 14 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 15 | Each brother brought with him a full retinue of staff – – artisans , labourers , shoemakers and so on – – in fact all the elements of the Hindu caste system . |
| 16 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |