Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 2 | Brittain is always up with the lark and it was a nice piece of work that Needle Gun did under Roberts on the Side Hill woodchip gallops early on Tuesday that makes me select him for the Laburnum Stakes . |
| 3 | Tavalouze poked him between the shoulder blades until he straightened up . |
| 4 | Rex suddenly sobered to the rifle butt which struck him between the shoulder blades . |
| 5 | His sense of the ridiculous helped him through the myriad indignities which he and Lindsay underwent . |
| 6 | ‘ — well , they surely are now — and you hugged him tighter and tighter , and you dragged him through the divorce courts — ’ |
| 7 | to know , we do n't say , had to talk to him through the Christmas presents it was lovely . |
| 8 | She glimpsed him through the glass walls of his studio as she walked past , his watch nailed to a tree so that he could see the time . |
| 9 | Had to scrape him off the flag stones with this here spatula . ’ |
| 10 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 11 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 12 | She asked him about the beer kegs and he pointed to a flight of wooden stairs at the end of the hall . |
| 13 | In recognition of his enormous contribution to world tennis , fellow ITF members presented him during the World Champions Dinner in the elegant Pavilion Gabriel in Paris , during the French Open , with a specially commissioned bust , complete with that pugnacious chin which perfectly reflects the determined response he has always presented to any potentially damaging challenge . |
| 14 | He kept his mind completely still , it was like something preserved , like something in a jar in a laboratory , but his body came undone and shook , there was a sound inside him like the sound tracks make when a train 's coming , that hiss and crack the length of his veins , that shudder in his blood . |
| 15 | Just how weak were Rank 's budgetary controls can be seen from their dealings with Gabriel Pascal , the Hungarian producer whose brief career was built on his having persuaded George Bernard Shaw to trust him with the film rights to his plays . |
| 16 | Can we put him with the biscuit cutters over there ? |
| 17 | But you see , the Reverend has a distant relative whom he means to put in my place and so I was granted sick leave over the holiday in order that his dear Jonathan could come and assist him with the Christmas services . |
| 18 | Suddenly a heavy hand whacked him in the shoulder blades . |
| 19 | Socially reclusive , emotionally recessive — it might be asked whether Larkin had any life at all ; the student radicals at Hull who daubed denunciations of him in the university lavatories presumably thought that he should get one . ’ |
| 20 | Wimbledon champion Edberg lasted until Courier beat him in the quarter finals . |
| 21 | There are five references to him in the farewell discourses . |
| 22 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 23 | She kept reminding herself of the stories about him in the gossip columns , of his reputation as a womaniser . |
| 24 | She had been unable to concentrate on her reading , her mind constantly straying to the conversation she had had with him in the rose gardens . |
| 25 | The government insisted this was the reason he secretly contacted Castro to mediate a solution that would save him from the drug dealers ' retribution . |
| 26 | Mann was tired , and still thanking the Academician for managing to free him from the security police . |
| 27 | EE : Easy come , easy go — we sha n't see him before the Easter holidays . |
| 28 | We had climbed together a couple of weeks before at Goat Crag , where I was once again reminded how suited Fanshawe is to upward progress ; a powerful frame and seemingly hydraulic legs brought him to the crag aeons before I arrived . |
| 29 | Attendants in stiff , white robes swooped forward as soon as he entered ( indicating tips would have to be paid ) , offering to show him to the changing rooms . |
| 30 | Behind him on the back seats of the bus four teenagers argued loudly over the cost of the litre of cider and half bottle of vodka they passed between them . |