Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones tried to put before him the possible alternative courses of action . |
| 2 | Gwili tried to interpret for him the power of Welsh literature and especially the ‘ renaissance ’ of modern Welsh poetry of which he was himself a part , but Edward had only a smattering of Welsh and , judging from rough translations of folksongs and simple lyrics , he was disinclined to carry his studies further . |
| 3 | His first-class education , his wide experience of engineering around the world , combined with the speed and clarity of his mind , made conversing with him a delightful privilege . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 5 | Bill thought I 'd died on him the other night cos I was , you know , me breathing and everything , and then all of a sudden I must 've relaxed for a bit and not needed to breathe and he give me a shock he says God I thought you were dead . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 7 | As Minton 's relationship with the Roberts deteriorated he began to gather round him a gang of male students at Camberwell who became known as ‘ Johnny 's Circus ’ . |
| 8 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 9 | The deputy headmaster arrived on the scene and the headmaster proceeded to explain to him the cause of the fuss : |
| 10 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 11 | ROS : Madam , it so fell out that certain players We o'erraught on the way : of these we told him And there did seem in him a kind of joy To hear of it . |
| 12 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 13 | So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally . |
| 14 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 15 | As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes . |
| 16 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 17 | He had grown around him a shell because a shell was necessary . |
| 18 | She was beautiful as well , and he remembered that Clarissa 's warning that she was both clever and dangerous , had drawn from him the rather feeble reply that when they were pretty he never noticed much else . |
| 19 | They had requested of him a single large living room , an ample eating room and ‘ no useless drawingroom ’ . |
| 20 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |
| 21 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 22 | Glynn also had stolen from him a purse containing £22 and a gold signet ring . |
| 23 | He had gone with Richard on crusade and had shared with him the hazards of the perilous journey home . |
| 24 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 25 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |
| 26 | It had seemed to him a natural extension of his duties , and somehow consistent with Islamic notions of hospitality , to assume responsibility for seeing that Owen was properly supplied with coffee . |
| 27 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 28 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 29 | He had brought with him a wealth of experience and he shared many a story of his love of the outdoors . |
| 30 | He had intended to learn French and had brought with him a set of books asserting that you could teach yourself French in two weeks , but he did n't open them . |