Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the golf-course behind him a foursome of players shouted to one another as they approached the fourteenth green . |
| 2 | One of Isambard 's advance party , and by the cut of him a man of importance . |
| 3 | Tuan Ti Fo smiled , holding the boy to him a while , conscious yet again of how insubstantial he seemed . |
| 4 | The coroner released the body to him an hour ago . |
| 5 | On the shelf below him the old man was vomiting again , too weak even to roll over so that blood and mucus oozed down his chin and neck , some of it bubbling back into his throat . |
| 6 | During the meeting with him a few months before his death which was recorded in an article published in the London Review , Philip Roth found him as keen as mustard : here was someone who listened , with the intent stillness of a chipmunk . |
| 7 | Presently , as he sat by himself in a remote corner of the banqueting hall , he noticed on the wall beside him an ascending column of white ants ; as they reached the ceiling they spread their wings and slowly drifted down in a delicate living veil . |
| 8 | On the wall behind him the name UBALDO VALESIO appeared over and over again in large black capitals . |
| 9 | Upon the evidence before him the Director has decided that the initiation of criminal proceedings is not warranted . |
| 10 | At the sight of him the stranger started to fumble urgently with his money pouch . |
| 11 | Steve Harper , haulage contractor , stood outside alone for a grateful crisp smokeless moment of silence , and when they opened the door to him a strange shadow of the night sidled in with him from prehistory . |
| 12 | When she 'd thrown the challenge at him a part of her had wanted him to refuse to go , had wanted him to say he 'd rather stay with her . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ Faldo has the heat on him every time he goes out there and that is the hardest part of the game . |
| 14 | and they would also , they , she probably the , the lawyers would also go for a settlement for him the property |
| 15 | He reads a newspaper to him every day , takes him on trains and buses and to the shops . |
| 16 | At a sign from him the WAAF wound the chair back till I was completely horizontal . |
| 17 | He must have left Taipei again later that night or early the following morning , because there was no sign of him the next day . |
| 18 | ‘ I — had a word with him the other day . |
| 19 | ‘ I got a letter from him a few days later , sent to the travel agents . |
| 20 | I had a go at him the other week using a fucking hire car ! |
| 21 | It was a sound which had sent a thrill through him the first time he had heard it . |
| 22 | Writers such as Aristotle , and a century before him the so-called Old Oligarch — both unsympathetic to democracy — naturally used terms such as " the virtuous " , " the noble " , " the best " , " the few " , " the notable , " the wealthy " , almost interchangeably , and contrasted this elite group with another , called variously " the mob " , " the poor " , " the mass " , " the worse " , and so on . |