Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 2 | This global stance and anthropological imagination continue to guide him in his consideration of the relation between religion and culture , and his fascination with ‘ more primitive and self-contained peoples , where the culture and the religion are co-terminous ’ . |
| 3 | If so , perhaps the explosion and the subsequent punishment have brought him to his senses , for an upsurge in his form was highlighted by a violent century against Leicestershire . |
| 4 | It led to the first of his nine England caps , mostly on tour , where his tubby enthusiasm and — from behind the ropes anyway — his seemingly unathletic , but jauntily optimistic matelot 's gait have endeared him to crowds . |
| 5 | Sometimes Papert 's writings and his enthusiasm for changing the structure of education seem to place him in affinity with such educational radicals as Ivan Illich and Everett Reimer , but this is misleading . |
| 6 | Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm . |
| 7 | Peter Conrad 's previous books of critiism ismand autobiography have shown him to be a master of a certain style of brilliant , allusive , penetrating prose . |
| 8 | Other people with less ability have overtaken him on the ladder and it makes me so cross . |
| 9 | His early days underground working alongside miners on the coal-face have imbued him with a special rapport with the thousands of miners he now oversees as chairman of British Coal . |
| 10 | Diverse roles in A Fish Called Wanda and Cry Freedom have kept him from being pigeon-holed by casting directors . |
| 11 | Years of experience have left him with nagging doubts about the seemingly perfect customers . |
| 12 | TOKS AKPATA is a man whose love of the game and whose own sad injury have spurred him on his one-man campaign to make the rugby pitch a safer place . |
| 13 | His family have attended him at all times with considerable devotion . ’ |