Example sentences of "him [art] [noun] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 2 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 3 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 4 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 5 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 6 | William Hill have already reacted by installing him as 5-2 favourite to win the world after his record fifth successive victory in the Masters , a performance which earned him the gold trophy for keeps . |
| 7 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 8 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 9 | and I showed him the escape hatch in the cockpit , " open this hatch and get out and get as far away from the aircraft as you can " . |
| 10 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 11 | Not for him the Baden-Powell approach of rubbing two Boy Scouts together ; he liberally douses the twigs with paraffin and throws in a match . |
| 12 | They call him the mystery man with a record for his mystery girl ; people have been writing in wanting to know more , women especially , but Amis does n't have the will to respond . |
| 13 | It was widely recognized to be a very important contribution to quantum theory , and it won him the Nobel Prize in 1922 . |
| 14 | He showed no surprise when Blanche told him the number plate of the car was false , and Nowak emphasised he did not want the police to press charges if the driver was found . |
| 15 | For him the civilization stage of European culture had been ushered in by the French Revolution . |
| 16 | Northampton have been so suitably impressed by Ross 's abilities that they have offered him the coaching job for the next two seasons , a post that he has accepted . |
| 17 | To help , Tarantino took Roth on a tour of places like In And Out Burger , and gave him a crash course in the kind of trash culture that would have surrounded an LA child of the Seventies — old TV copy shows , cartoons like Speed Racer , Fantastic Four comics , bubblegum pop . |
| 18 | The bay youngster ( centre ) is getting out of the way ; behind him a bay mare with turned-back ears , a tight mouth and flattened tail is also trying to back away , but she 's blocked by the grey mare , who is more interested in the camera . |
| 19 | Lily gave him a look telling of her own sharpness . |
| 20 | Unknown to the teacher he had taken with him a test tube of the acid to test its reaction with lavatory paper . |
| 21 | Bert 's public-spirited efforts have n't gone unnoticed either — his fastidiousness has won him a thank-you scroll from the Keep Britain Tidy group . |
| 22 | It may be that at this time he was retained also by Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , who had awarded him a money fee before 1245 . |
| 23 | The deputy judge had before him a probate action in which the first defendant , Mr. Clive Smith , sought to obtain probate of a manuscript document bearing the date 18 April 1986 , and said to be a testamentary disposition made by the deceased , Mr. Percy Winterbone . |
| 24 | It is not open to Mr Tillson subsequently to say that he had no need of a tenancy of the occupied land because he already had a possessory title which gave him a freehold interest in that land … |
| 25 | Peter Evans 's uncanny ability to stay with even the most wayward soloist , coupled with his magisterial technical security , make him a recital partner in a million . |
| 26 | The suggested starting point was that , if a lad is coming out of Deerbolt , Father Patrick lets his area youth worker know and gives him a contact address for the worker and they go from there . |
| 27 | Derek 's mother was my great-aunt 's daughter which I think made him a half cousin to me . |
| 28 | His determination to prevent the vessel from being claimed for salvage earned him a bravery award from the US Congress . |
| 29 | Stephen 's quick thinking has earned him a bravery award in the Care in Crisis competition run by the Red Cross , and the respect of his mother . |
| 30 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |