Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 2 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 3 | ‘ Citizen ’ John , ‘ a little Stout Man with dark cropt Hair ’ , carried with him a dangerous reputation as an atheist , a mob orator and a Jacobin , and in 1794 had spent several months in the Tower of London before being tried and acquitted on a charge of high treason.l– His relationship with Coleridge had hitherto depended entirely on their animated and frequently argumentative correspondence . |
| 4 | His first posting in 1915 took him to the Toba Batak country in Northern Sumatra in time to witness the Muslim Acehnese rising against their Christian rulers ; an event which made him appreciate the approaching crisis of Islam as a focus for nationalism , and impressed upon him the urgent need for Muslim-Christian accommodation . |
| 5 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 6 | It was only when the Finance Minister , Navarro Rubio , confronted Franco personally , impressed on him the absolute and urgent necessity of devaluing the peseta , and asked him how he would feel if ration cards had to be reintroduced , that Franco reluctantly gave in . |
| 7 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 8 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 11 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
| 12 | Ken was a great fan of the then Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Ramsey , and talked about him a great deal . |
| 13 | They had requested of him a single large living room , an ample eating room and ‘ no useless drawingroom ’ . |
| 14 | A client bought from him a large quantity of shares in an infamous CTC stock which went bust . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 34.1 ; see also 32.49 ) , and with God 's supernatural eyesight is shown by him the whole extent of the Promised Land from Dan in the north to Zoar in the south , and right across to the Mediterranean sea in the west . |
| 17 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 18 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |
| 19 | The new law 's brutal surgery , the promises — the menaces — the indomitable energy , inspired in him a profound torpor . |
| 20 | Each brother brought with him a full retinue of staff – – artisans , labourers , shoemakers and so on – – in fact all the elements of the Hindu caste system . |
| 21 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
| 22 | The local charities found in him a generous benefactor . |
| 23 | In 1962 he was awarded the OBE , and in 1971 Gallaudet College , Washington , which had previously conferred on him an Honourary Doctorate , gave him an Edward Miner Gallaudet Award , citing that : His persistent courageous , often lonely insistence in his land upon adapting educational practice with deaf children to individual characteristics preserved hope for the masses of deaf children throughout the world who were faced with the bleakness of no alternatives … |
| 24 | In 1886 he was elected FRS although he had no academic degree until 1910 , when he delivered the Herbert Spencer lecture at Oxford and the university conferred on him an honorary D.Sc . |
| 25 | Gallaudet College conferred on him the Honorary Degree of B.D. in recognition of his work for the deaf , and he was appointed an Officer of the French Academy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | £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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |