Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine months on Mr Boulton is still waiting for the two and a half thousand pounds he claims Brit-Pol owes him for the coach . |
| 2 | Japanese director Nagisa Oshima wants him for the lead in Valentino , a movie which will explore the destructive effect of fame on silent screen stars . |
| 3 | But if you , too , see life through such dark spectacles , perhaps a book with a murderer her , with whom your readers are going to sympathise if you can possibly make them ( notice how in the later Ripley book Patricia Highsmith shows him as a loving gardener ) or with any other sort of anti-law hero , this is the sort of work you should be addressing yourself to . |
| 4 | Tony Vaux follows him through the comic-horror jungle of Third World bureaucracy — and corruption . |
| 5 | A RECENT photograph of Kingsley Amis shows him with a cat , which is standing beside his typewriter . |
| 6 | He is upset at the lack of activity and howls appallingly , but when Odd-Knut tries him on the trace he is clearly crippled and in pain . |
| 7 | Now it does n't matter what I say to him or how hard Phil Boersma works him in the gym or in training — Barnes has to do it himself . |
| 8 | GINA MORRIS joins him for a big breakfast . |
| 9 | Mrs Chamoun guides him around the Emir Bashir 's palace at Beit Eddine ; he is clearly taken in by the mythical Lebanon of happy agrarian masses toiling away under the guidance of a benevolent leader . |
| 10 | Declan rates him as a very good defender and I 'm sure can tell us more . |
| 11 | The Guardian reporter praised their ‘ soft man/hard man routine : Nields offers the witness a comfortable chair and a cigarette , Liman slaps him round the face and kicks the chair out from underneath him . ’ |
| 12 | Britten invests him with a memorable sententiousness of utterance , something one might call proverbial if such a word could apply to melodic line . |
| 13 | Ali lowers him to the ground , holding his left hand , and tries to get him to walk . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , it is decided not to reveal the fact that Johnson is not dead in this video , as this would affect sales of the ten-album box set of his old songs , so Richards thumps him with a Gibson L5 and Johnson finally dies , leaving behind one last blues classic : ‘ Devil Dog On My Trail ’ . |
| 15 | When Arkesilas IV had succeeded Battos IV is unknown , but Pindar addresses him as a young man in 462 . |
| 16 | The kid steps in and Ali stabs him with a well-timed jab that 's as sweet as a bite from the last tangy apple of autumn . |
| 17 | Cain kills Abel — it is a short step from rebellion to bloodshed — and God condemns him to a nomadic life , but provides protection against death . |
| 18 | ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’ |
| 19 | Joe is Pip 's brother-in-law and he suffers with Pip at the start as Pip regards him as a youthful counterpart and describes him as |
| 20 | Now , the Talleyrand-Perigords have , as their name implies , been mighty lords in Perigord since the early Middle Ages , and in the early poem ‘ Near Perigord ’ Talleyrand is one of the powerful and menacing neighbours whom Bertrand de Born has to play off one against another , thus earning ( so Pound 's poem suggests ) the title which Dante gives him in the Inferno , ‘ sower of strife ’ . |
| 21 | Clever Trevor must be the most over rated player in Scotland ( except for Paul McStay ) and it surprises me how Taylor picks him for the England squad yet does n't give big Mark the nod . |
| 22 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 23 | Richardson freezes him with a glare . |
| 24 | Mancarelli tells him about the broken window . |
| 25 | The breadhead does n't like it , but Dixie claps him on the shoulder and laughs . |
| 26 | But when James forgets his spectacles and knocks an Oxford spinster off her bicycle , his devoted Kate perceives him as a ‘ stupid old man ’ . |
| 27 | Legendary in concept , this depiction of Barbarossa at Gelnhausen portrays him in the company of mythical beasts . |
| 28 | Anne watches him over the table in that brooding speculative way of hers , as if he were a long-pondered clue in a half-completed crossword . |
| 29 | Dr Clarke shows him as an insider addressing officials and economists of many shades of opinion , including some whose position was close to his own . |
| 30 | Great Britain skipper Garry Schofield is still out with a hamstring injury and Kiwi Mercer joins him with a damaged ankle . |