Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , surely , he must have thought he was up against a demon intent on destroying him for no reason at all . |
| 2 | This Autumn two victories in smaller races at Auteuil — one over timber , the other over the larger obstacles — readied him for a trip to Newbury for the Hennessy , his first outing in handicap company in Britain . |
| 3 | The pub they used to have was patronized by shooting parties in the grouse season and one big businessman was so impressed by Grandad that he offered to take him back with him to train him for a position in his firm . |
| 4 | His background hardly prepared him for a life of elegant luxury as a film star or obedience to the star system . |
| 5 | Several minutes rock still and the sentries no doubt mistook him for a part of the shore over which the seas were gently breaking . |
| 6 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 7 | He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't ask him for a drink of water if I were dying of thirst . |
| 9 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 10 | After a time , his doctor friend had seen enough of his extremity and took him for a drink in the airport bar . |
| 11 | Daisy was screwing up her courage to accost Ricky and ask him for a drink after church when the Vicar launched into the final prayer about being made flesh , and she suddenly remembered the vast ox heart cooking in the oven for Ethel , which would burn dry if it was n't taken out , so she belted home . |
| 12 | One afternoon I summoned up my courage and as casually as I could I invited him for a drink after work that evening . |
| 13 | As he cried out , she insisted on taking him for a drive in her car . |
| 14 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 15 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 16 | When the bike 's owner , replete in heavy leather jacket appeared , Agassi chatted with him for a while before offering to buy the bike for £9,000 . |
| 17 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 18 | Hundred and fifty for him for a fortnight at the height of the season and two hundred and fifty each for us at the height of the season . |
| 19 | I said I would , but I would n't see him for a couple of days because I had to take a train . |
| 20 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 21 | He stormed : ‘ The FA should suspend him for a couple of years and if they ca n't ban the video then they should fine him every penny he makes out of it . |
| 22 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 24 | He stoked the fire so that it flared , then reached behind him for a pouch of thin leather which contained charred bones . |
| 25 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 26 | There the warden arrested him , imprisoned him in his gaol at Allexton , and afterwards released him for a fine of half a mark . |
| 27 | Trade him for a sack of glass pebbles ? |
| 28 | I told him this and asked him for a prescription for a warm , dry home . |
| 29 | And the Reds boss has delivered a surprise vote-of-confidence in his £2.2m signing from Derby even tipping him for a return to the England side . |
| 30 | Alyssia gazed at him for a fraction of a second , then she took his advice and walked back to the house , when what she wanted to do was run as far away as she could from it . |