Example sentences of "him [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His visit will give us an opportunity to show him the problems in getting sponsorship from businesses in an area like the east end of London . |
| 2 | Mr Noir 's popularity rating has jumped 12 points since his resignation , making him the person on the right whom the French would ‘ most like to see playing an important role in the future ’ . |
| 3 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 4 | General Booth of the Salvation Army , had recognition by the City of London conferring on him the Freedom of the City , in 1905 , which was also the year when Dr. T.J. Barnard ( the founder of the Children 's Homes that bear his name ) , died on 19th , September . |
| 5 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 6 | Such things would give him the freedom of action he craves . |
| 7 | Hands off : the splendid form of Dewi Morris ( left ) is likely to win him the nod as the second scrum-half in the British Lions ' squad , pushing Robert Jones out of the picture |
| 8 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 9 | He saw pliant girls offering him the laurels of victory before they fainted before his conquering feet . |
| 10 | She pointed out to him the attraction of publishing so surprising a paper and urged him to do it as quickly as possible . |
| 11 | For him the attraction of skyline walking is obvious — once you have made the initial effort to climb the first peak , everything else that follows is usually progressively less strenuous . |
| 12 | Seven years later it was Meg who got him the audition on TV 's Opportunity Knocks which was to give him his big break . |
| 13 | Every time he lifted the cap of his luminous watch the hands seemed to have barely moved , but now he hauled Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott into the canoe and passed him the flask of coffee . |
| 14 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 15 | He shall be great , and shall be called the Son of the Highest and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David . |
| 16 | The American smiled at the accurate description of the Vice President whose reputation for always falling asleep at meetings had earned him the nickname of Mogadon Man . |
| 17 | Yet Erhard 's honest , calm , and fair-minded character reflected a lack of political acumen and an inability to wield authority which won him the nickname of ‘ the Rubber Lion ’ . |
| 18 | W. G. Collingwood describes one of these men Balthazar Puchberger , ( altered in course of time to Puthparker ) whose shaggy or tousled head earned him the nickname of Towsie . |
| 19 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 20 | And now she smooths over him the plates of his skull |
| 21 | His 52.3s win in the under-17s ' 400m earned him the award for the top track athlete in the Northern Division One West match . |
| 22 | For him the girl in the picture ‘ was made to seem perfectly in context as he had never been able to see people before ’ . |
| 23 | These works , some of which were strongly anti-Catholic and evidently intended as propaganda in the war against Spain , earned him the epithet of ‘ the Spanish heretic ’ in the Index . |
| 24 | ‘ Tante grazie , Benito , ’ Lucenzo muttered to the boatman , who handed him the keys to the ignition . |
| 25 | She handed him the keys from her jeans , careful to avoid his touch . |
| 26 | That was his happiness , to talk to a captured ear was for him the thrill of seeing the Commandant 's office roofless and destroyed . |
| 27 | Sparke published forty-two of Prynne 's works , including Histrio-mastix ( 1633 ) , which earned him the antagonism of William Laud [ q.v. ] |
| 28 | I 'd give him the order of the boot . |
| 29 | The Norwegian government awarded him the Order of St Olav in 1979 . |
| 30 | Following the execution in December 1989 of the Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu , the 1988 decree awarding him the Order of Sükhbaatar was annulled . |