Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | An act of God is usually held to have been the spark which ignited Ceauşescu 's ambitions as a town-planner and architect of communism and spurred him to act on them . |
| 2 | He went to Italy on his own and eventually made himself pick up a girl in Rome , mostly for the sake of having someone to speak his new Italian to , but she thought his intense shyness some sort of perversion and kicked him out . |
| 3 | The lack of judgement that led him to write to Routh in such a vein was Nora 's fault . |
| 4 | The Kimbell 's hefty endowment freed Pillsbury from the chore of fundraising and enabled him to mount several important scholarly exhibitions that might not have found successful venues elsewhere ( such as the Jacopo Bassano exhibition , scheduled for January-April 1993 ) and which still attracted numerous art lovers to Fort Worth . |
| 5 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 6 | I raced against Cameron Sharp a number of times and beat him , so it was galling to find a few weeks later that he was racing Carl Lewis on the Continent . |
| 7 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 8 | This was , reportedly , to avoid confusion over the status of Anand and to allow him to work unhindered up until the time the new government was formed . |
| 9 | Martyn Goff was repeatedly amazed by his knowledge of books and recollects him quoting from Shakespeare and Moby Dick at length , whilst simultaneously rolling his eyes in parodic style . |
| 10 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 11 | He dreamed up mad little schemes that both gave him a great deal of pleasure and helped him to avoid some of the inevitable boredom of an out-of-town tour production . |
| 12 | By introducing him to Pan Am 's lawyers before bowing out again , Miller had broken Coleman 's alarming sense of isolation and put him in touch with at least a measure of the support he needed , support that the DIA itself was unable to give . |
| 13 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 14 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |
| 15 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 16 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 17 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 18 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 19 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 20 | Gradually he had started to reject food which had increased her level of anxiety and gained him more attention . |
| 21 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 22 | Seeing that Teclis could not be dissuaded , the High Loremaster gifted him with the War Crown of Saphery and let him go . |
| 23 | The amount of compensation reflects the fact that he is out of work and compensates him for his losses . |
| 24 | The case of ice that weighed him down was his best suit . |
| 25 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 26 | The sort of job that pleased him most , this one . |
| 27 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 28 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 29 | In broad Scots he asked Selkirk for his authority , the soldier flourished a piece of parchment and told him to hurry . |
| 30 | Young Donald coolly considered his grandfather 's staring look of fright and answered him deliberately : ‘ No — I would not dirty my ’ hands on a bit of a teacher . |