Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That 's right : someone rang up and asked for him the other day .
2 Lord Burlington also employed the services of an architect named Campbell , who built for him a beautiful temple , based on the Temple of Romulus in Rome .
3 Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response .
4 Soon after coming of age , his ‘ hard conscience ’ towards his tenantry drew on him a judicial rebuke from the lord chancellor Thomas Egerton , Baron Ellesmere [ q.v. ] , and he steadily enlarged his estate by buying out minor gentry families in the vicinity .
5 For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere .
6 Fourteen points put Master James eighth in the championship and Hesketh made of him a public figure , a British hope at a time when Graham Hill , Mike Hailwood and others were fading from the scene and Jackie Stewart was about to retire .
7 Very quickly this initial impression vanished as she recognised in him a dazzling personality , a person who had only to enter a room and the pace of things altered .
8 For his part , Petion was feeling no actual fear as such , but these trappings of a bygone age , which could represent good or evil depending on the choice of the individual worshipper , instilled in him a definite sense of wariness .
9 Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby .
10 I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame .
11 The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness .
12 The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride .
13 The law seemed to him a mountainous cloud , compacted of these rank and ever increasing hyphae , sprawling over the buildings in which her exigences were met , pouring herself into every drawer , lying on every shelf , saturating every ledger , every record with her must , coating all like a mould and growing by eating that on which it grows .
14 It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there .
15 Strange as it may now seem , the primacy of Canterbury seemed to him an immovable feature which guaranteed the firmness of the whole structure .
16 He had even provided , as an antagonist to North , a fictional member of the NSC , ‘ Aaron Sykes ’ , whose job it was to give flesh and voice to those invisible and voiceless colleagues who had presumably tried to dissuade North from what he was doing : to appear , as the Laws appeared to Socrates , ‘ humming in his ears ’ , about the offence he would cause to country , friends and laws if he did what seemed to him the right thing .
17 ‘ I … er … came across him the other day , that 's all . ’
18 His doctor constantly suggested to him the benefits of sun and sea air ( not that he needed any encouragement to visit the sea , since it still evoked for him the happiest memories ) , and in July they travelled , with Eliot 's sister who had come from America , to the Isle of Wight for two weeks .
19 Every shrill cadence of the birds ' song , every soft utterance of Dr Tariq poured into him the high exhilaration of fear .
20 Johnson extracted from him the English meaning of the Gaelic place-name ; it signified a place of , or near , water , conforming , claimed McQueen , to ‘ all the descriptions of the temples of that goddess , which were situated near rivers that there might be water to wash the statue ’ .
21 As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way .
22 ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam !
23 Norman Bowler witnessed the vagaries of Minton 's existence at this time , but the older man also revealed to him a tender side which his performance in public obscured .
24 He gathered about him a technical staff of diverse talents , whom he inspired with an enthusiasm to give of their best .
25 He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues .
26 It clearly represented for him a literary turning-point since it not only swept aside all mystifying attempts to separate the literary activity from the contemporary socio-political context , but also injected a coherent set of political arguments squarely into the literary debate : anti-fascism , anti-colonialism , anti-capitalism , arguments that were beginning to find much grass-roots and intellectual support in France .
27 She thought about him a good deal , and she was troubled because she could n't feel sure about her feelings towards him .
28 In November Churchill paid his annual visit to his old school at Harrow , where the boys sang for him a special verse :
29 Mrs Singh worried about him a great deal , and was often very angry at his apparent lack of progress .
30 He brought with him a thirty page document proposing a military take-over of the country .
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