Example sentences of "him [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rory was late for their appointment , and when he arrived , Holdfast told him dourly to close the door and join him at the biggest table . |
| 2 | As the first law of kung fu is defend , then attack , the student who has gained knowledge of the basic strikes , has next to be trained in parries and blocking manoeuvres to enable him effectively to stop a punch without being hit himself . |
| 3 | As a free man in a growing country , it did not take him long to see the potential . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , it did n't take him long to find the riff-raff , ’ Moran said . |
| 5 | The Villa Fiesole was a fairly big house and yet it had not taken him long to find the box . |
| 6 | He is the real man as none other ; for he alone is man as God intends man to be ; he alone has travelled to the uttermost limits of the ‘ far country ’ of man 's estrangement ; and in him alone has the judgement been passed , carried out , and overcome to issue in reconciliation . |
| 7 | determination under a contract between two parties owes a duty of care to both those parties , because both will rely on him and him alone to get the determination right , if for no other reason than that they will be bound by it . |
| 8 | In vain the poor jackal howled and shrieked to the tiger to stop , but the noise behind him only frightened the coward more . |
| 9 | As might have been expected from his career , he outstayed his welcome and had to be forced to retire from the post — a position previously rewarded with a peerage , but which for him only merited a knighthood . |
| 10 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 11 | Poyntz had married the illegitimate daughter of earl Rivers and was clearly suspect as a result , although the choice of Berkeley , a kinsman , to replace him perhaps implies a wish not to antagonize Poyntz 's associates . |
| 12 | Captain 's sent him ashore to take the headrope . " |
| 13 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 14 | I sent him outside to make a start on the exterior painting , and went back to tidy up the mess . |
| 15 | Lucker murmurs something to Jasper and leads him away closing the door on me . |
| 16 | Nevertheless drawings by him still lined the hall which led into the bar , and for a period a mural by Minton , with some assistance from others , hung in the dining-room where visitors could dine simply or expensively , eating plates of goulash or a champagne supper , seated at scrubbed oak tables and benches . |
| 17 | It was this habit of self-mastery which made one expect him always to maintain a standard of behaviour which other people felt themselves excused from emulating . |
| 18 | The nurse who brought him home said the sister baptized him herself the very night he was born . |
| 19 | But I am terrified of taking him home to meet the family and particularly my sister , in case he goes the way of all the others . |
| 20 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |
| 21 | Stone seems to think that feminist history would insist on an active campaigning role for women , and this unfortunately causes him also to dismiss the significance of gender as a category for historical analysis on the grounds that it comes with too much ‘ ideological baggage ’ ( p. 12 , n. 19 ) . |
| 22 | He must have learnt a great deal from Thomas May , and from him also acquired an enthusiasm for pottery , but he was quick to grasp the crucial principle that the changes in the form of some vessels was due to a chronological development , an idea that had eluded May , who never rose much above the level of that of ‘ an indefatigable draughtsman ’ , as his Antiquaries ' obituary rather dismissively calls him . |
| 23 | Other talking points were Paul Cadd 's clapped-out car and slow driving , and him nearly feeling the Hand of Plod when he rather loudly called Rik Mayell a ******* **** after he was announced man of the match : the local constable was ideally placed ( on the touchline , two yards away ) and had a real nik-nik look in his eye . |
| 24 | The key figure here was Cardinal A. Bea , the veteran biblical scholar whose experience and contacts fitted him uniquely to head the Secretariat for Christian Unity , to develop sensitive relations with both Christians and Jews , to bring all this manifold competence to the redrafting of Dei Verbum and the production of Nostra Aetate , and to foster the desired biblical renewal both pastorally within the Church and by ecumenical co-operation . |
| 25 | It was second nature to him now to note the time by the illuminated dial of his electric bedside clock before he had switched on his lamp , a second after he had felt for and silenced the raucous insistence of the telephone . |
| 26 | Hahnemann described her as his best ever student and her deep love for him surely withheld the manuscript to deny his critics the opportunity of judging the 6th edition even more eccentric than the 5th . |
| 27 | I called Roy on his return and the rally continued with him immediately attempting the return to my original candidate . |
| 28 | ‘ I gather Dr Grant saw him immediately following the accident . ’ |
| 29 | The armed robber might say that he had no intention of using the firearm , that he carried it with him simply to frighten the victim , and that it went off accidentally : if the jury believes that , should he be convicted of murder ? |
| 30 | You tape his mouth closed , put the roll of tape in one pocket , then leave him there to search the rest of the house , pulling down the blinds in each room as you go . |