Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Grown-up in his own fisherman 's kingdom , his cruelty brands him an emblematic villain .
2 His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling .
3 In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab .
4 Phil was again unlucky with injuries in 1990–91 when a fractured rib in November reduced his contribution to modest proportions , but his distinguished career already assures him a permanent place in the Palace annals .
5 Paul hands him a small glass .
6 ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments .
7 And this way he gets him a good life .
8 I butted in : ‘ But of course Martinez was right again — Harley starts to win and Martinez gets him a fat contract with Supersight .
9 It transpires that the new tenant is Pris , one of the androids Deckard is hunting ( though John does not realise this until later in the story ) The presence of Pris excites him a great deal .
10 Aggro is likely to be considered appropriate in situations where opposing fans attempt a territorial invasion of their rivals ' ‘ end ’ ; where one hooligan fan stares at , or adopts a threatening posture towards an opponent , or calls him a demasculatory name , such as ‘ cunt ’ , ‘ wanker ’ , or ‘ poofta ’ .
11 His skipper , Richard Gough , calls him the best player at the club .
12 The following gem lands him a Fun Fortnight T-Shirt , and just to stop the pair of them falling out , we 'll give Billy a T-shirt too .
13 The following gem lands him a Fun Fortnight T-Shirt , and just to stop the pair of them falling out , we 'll give Billy a T-shirt too .
14 Paul Merton instantly fixes him a hard stare , saying nothing , before slowly pronouncing , ‘ You 're Bamber Gascoigne are n't you ? ’
15 GUIL throws him a second coin . )
16 Isabelle throws him a maternal gaze .
17 Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines …
18 Eric has a transfer which , on the face of it , offers him a greater opportunity of first-team football . ’
19 The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar .
20 The issues of repentance and forgiveness feature here also — Rodolpho , even at the last moment , is prepared to accept the blame for what Eddie has done and offers to kiss his hand , and Beatrice also offers him an earlier chance of redemption by asking him and Catherine to make friends and Catherine agrees — but Eddie refuses .
21 Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays .
22 Er someone tells him that , a policeman tells him the best way to look at it is if you were locked out your house
23 The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right .
24 Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) .
25 Though a newcomer to 500s , the Aussie reckons the Honda gives him no other choice ( Doohan has even lowered gearbox ratios to encourage wheelspin to help turn the bike ) .
26 Carlos Sainz 's victory for Toyota on the Rally of Portugal last week gives him a 13-point lead in the world championship .
27 This naturally gives him a tremendous light-grasp , but his main work is in hunting for new comets and new exploding stars or novæ , in which he has been remarkably successful ( his present total is five comets and four novæ ) , and there are not many people who will attempt anything like this .
28 It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests .
29 He is chairman of the IAEA 's Nuclear Safety Advisory Group , which gives him a pivotal role in co-ordinating the safety policies of all countries that have nuclear installations .
30 The magistrate gives him a three-week remand in custody .
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