Example sentences of "him [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutch chiaroscuro , dark and sombre , would hold him for a while yet , until he freed himself from Rembrandt , Millet , and Israëls and turned to Delacroix 's symphonies of colour . |
| 2 | ‘ But we can hold him for a while yet . |
| 3 | And if you could watch him for a while longer , you might discover just what he — a descendant of herd-living , company-loving , fast and flighty wild horses — feels about domestication . |
| 4 | I have n't seen him for a while actually . |
| 5 | But he said : ‘ The fans may not think Ian 's the best man for the job but if they lay off him for a bit then he might get it right for them . ’ |
| 6 | " Merci beaucoup , monsieur , " she murmured , smiling back at him for a fraction longer than necessary . |
| 7 | Lucy , still wary , watched him for a moment longer . |
| 8 | Fabia stared at him for a moment longer . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I have not heard from him for a month now . ’ |
| 10 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 11 | They were concerned when his mother did not arrive to deliver him for the day yesterday . |
| 12 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 13 | ‘ He blames him for the press not being here , ’ Celia said . |
| 14 | ‘ Then since you accept what I say , madam — ’ interposed the cardinal with a sense of timing that suggested the protector had not nominated him for the task solely on account of his venerability ‘ — might I urge you to give the prince into my custody ! ’ |
| 15 | His great-uncle took Charles under his wing and prepared him for the job ahead . |
| 16 | She expects him to be an untidy swimmer , but is irritated to find that he has a smooth powerful crawl which takes him through the water swiftly and seriously . |
| 17 | Veterans mostly of conferences and corporate operations where the good time masked a definite hidden agenda , they were steering him through the introductions deftly and with an impressive display of memory . |
| 18 | getting him off the dodgems perhaps will be a bigger problem . |
| 19 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 20 | His personal fondness for the sayings of the Reverend Swaggart marked him as a man somewhat out of step with much of the rest of the world ; a view reinforced by his apparent keenness on the suggestion of a freebooting American marine that the kingdom become a dumping-ground for spent atomic waste and noxious chemicals . |
| 21 | His pattern of personal leadership , as revealed by the Cabinet committees he chose to chair himself , reinforces the standard interpretation of him as a man more at ease with overseas than with domestic policy . |
| 22 | Poets were so highly esteemed that it was said that a Delhi-wallah visiting a friend in another part of India would always take with him as a present not jewels or hookahs or fine weapons but a few of Mir Taqi Mir 's new verses copied on to a single sheet of paper . |
| 23 | But now that I have I can sense him as a personality much better than his biscuit-rich brother . |
| 24 | Already he was wondering if his fame meant that his writing had only a contemporary appeal and he complained that people now thought of him as a celebrity rather than as a poet . |
| 25 | Knowing how the crowd was on Tony 's side and treating him as the hero only seemed to make Lee more determined . |
| 26 | ‘ Alex is a natural leader and I wanted the others to begin relating to him as the captain as soon as possible , ’ said the national coach . |
| 27 | It was said in Scorer v Seymour-Johns [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 347 per Salmon LJ that the special element can be characterised as the connection relying on the employee to the extent that they regard him as the business rather than his employer : in that case the employer 's business had many recurring customers ( cf Fellowes & Son v Fisher [ 1975 ] 2 All ER 829 ) . |
| 28 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 29 | And it is convenient to consider him as an entrepreneur even with respect to the resource he owns ( in the sense that , in using it for his own production process , rather than selling it at its market price to other producers , he is ‘ buying ’ it at an implicit cost ) . |
| 30 | At first , I suspect , we got Havel wrong in this country : on the strength of an early play like The Memorandum ( 1965 ) we pigeonholed him as an Absurdist along with Beckett and Ionesco . |