Example sentences of "of [v-ing] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
2 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
3 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
4 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
5 | The climax of his tale is to profess to excuse Cassio — ‘ But men are men ; the best sometimes forget ’ ( 237 ) — an extremely effective way of indicting him in the eyes of those present . |
6 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
7 | If your foe stoops on a ground unit and is locked in combat you 'll have a good chance of catching him in the flanks . |
8 | Tilson , who 's married and used to be a school cleaner , has n't been seen since the attack 3 weeks ago , and it 's for this reason , police have taken the unsual step of naming him as a suspect . |
9 | Instead of walking him round the beat , he should have taken him straight to the police station . |
10 | Miss Polly took his words as a compliment and treated him to a coy smile of invitation , meant to suggest that he should sit beside her ; but Sean had already marked Herbert Fraser for that position of honour , stopping just short of pushing him to the ground . |
11 | Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine . |
12 | Harbour , having scanned the field for Geoffrey — he had some notion of rushing him from the rear and felling him with a rabbit-chop — ran off to compare notes with Dotty and the others . |
13 | James II 's marriage to Mary of Gueldres had the attraction of providing him with a queen who came from the great artillery-making centre of northern Europe . |
14 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
15 | Sharing Gladstone 's high churchmanship , he was well qualified for the difficult task of reconciling him to the policy of Welsh disestablishment . |
16 | Guillaume was also disturbed by Modi 's unpredictable and unbusinesslike behaviour : ‘ the mere idea of asking him for a signature , which would have legalized a relationship , seemed ridiculous to me ’ . |
17 | Because if we turn back , said her mind , then you will be going away from Nuadu , you will be losing what might be the only chance of rescuing him from the Robemaker . |
18 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
19 | Vic keeps Baxter in suspense for a few moments , while he reviews the advantages of having him under an obligation . |
20 | The strain of having him in the club practically all the time had been hard enough . |
21 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
22 | KEVIN Gallacher accused Norwich 's Chris Sutton of upending him with a professional foul and blasted : ‘ I 've seen people sent off for less . ’ |
23 | He could have kicked himself , however , for imagining that although Eleanor had kept to her promise of inviting him to a meal , the ‘ little party ’ she had proposed would actually materialise . |
24 | Instead of putting him on a charge , the governor took the knife out of his hand and , while the prisoner was still being held by the officers , slashed his face . |
25 | Although she was nervous of putting him to the test , she knew that , sooner or later , she must . |
26 | He has at most two years before the next presidential election in which to try to put together a new centre left movement capable of carrying him into the president 's seat . |
27 | ‘ If I speak to Nerina , ’ said Bernard , whose blood pressure was so low there was talk of admitting him for a day or so , ‘ she might lift the curse . |
28 | She thought of ringing him on the off chance of catching him at the flat , but shelved the possibility as unlikely . |
29 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
30 | A loss would give momentum to the idea of dumping him at the party convention in July . |