Example sentences of "[vb past] him [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He conquered one of Europe 's toughest courses , the tour 's strongest field and the critics who labelled him a loser with his sudden-death triumph over Colin Montgomerie , elevating him back among the world 's leading players . |
| 2 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 3 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 4 | The stepdaughter , now 21 , bore him a child at 16 as a result of being raped . |
| 5 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
| 6 | He roared down the passage to the back-kitchen , where Mary O'Dell hugged him and promised him a slice of fruitcake still warm from the oven , if he was a good boy and ate up all his bread and butter first . |
| 7 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 8 | She drew him the length of her body , and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth . |
| 9 | I turned round and caught him a blow in the ribs . |
| 10 | In October 1259 Henry sealed a peace treaty with Louis IX ( St Louis ) of France whereby , in spite of his son 's objections , he renounced his claim to Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine and Poitou , while the French king , recognising Henry as his vassal in Aquitaine and other territories in the south-west , created him a peer of France . |
| 11 | The younger one wanted to be a sailor , and so I found him a place on a ship . |
| 12 | Jane found him a source of constant amusement . |
| 13 | They found him a teacher of clarity , whose lectures were the most enjoyable and most instructive which they heard during their training . |
| 14 | Well , I found him a stretch of grass , but , whew , it was hot , 100 degrees . |
| 15 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 16 | Now , bent and rheumaticky and crosser than ever , Ruth and her sister Joan Young found him a figure to be pitied rather than feared , but both agreed that he was an evil-tempered old man and they felt very sorry for his only daughter Molly who kept house for him . |
| 17 | David left school with 2 GCE ‘ O ’ level passes , in Art and Woodwork , and the school found him a job as a junior with a commercial art company , The Design Group Ltd. , and although some early press releases said that David was expelled from school , the record shows that he left two or three days early to start the job . |
| 18 | They found him a job as a Foreign Office translator . |
| 19 | Frankie left school and Dad found him a job with him , fetching and carrying sand for the men . |
| 20 | The outbreak of war found him a colonel of fifty-eight , who had never served abroad . |
| 21 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 22 | Colin phoned him up , and er , it it he mentioned , how he was starting up , and he said he might be interested , anyway Colin phoned him a couple of weeks ago to see if he was still interested in . |
| 23 | He helped him a lot with research about the history of the building , how the models are made , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 24 | I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’ |
| 25 | And it cost him a share of the halfway lead in the £600,000 GA European Open at Sunningdale . |
| 26 | But eventually it cost him a term at Her Majesty 's pleasure . |
| 27 | Sir Anthony Meyer 's self-destructive challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher cost him the support of his constituency party early in 1990 , but , like Sir Ian Gilmour , he was merely symptomatic of a cast of mind common to many of the baronetcy . |
| 28 | Thanks to proper medical care , the infection was cured , but he needed a convalescence of four weeks under medical guidance , a time which cost him the part of Timmy Cleary that he craved . |
| 29 | He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat . |
| 30 | Not long ago , a piece in the New York Times Magazine pronounced him the Ali of old , just about terminally perky . |