Example sentences of "him [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 2 | Until recently , the method by which Hébrard made the casts , enabling him to preserve the original waxes ( most of them owned today by Paul Mellon ) has been shrouded in mystery and the precise number of the edition has remained uncertain . |
| 3 | ‘ Shall I tell him to wait a few minutes , Inspector ? |
| 4 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 5 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 6 | And so just as Jesus showed his at-one-ment with us , he now asks us to show our at-one-ment with him , and join him to continue the Great Battle until the final defeat of Evil and the ‘ restoration of all things ’ . |
| 7 | Few of his ministers are saying , even in private , that they expect him to lose the next election . |
| 8 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 9 | An appointment was made for him to see an orthopaedic consultant who had a monthly clinic in Bala . |
| 10 | I desperately wanted him to see the right ‘ way to go ’ . |
| 11 | Chief Inspector Salter was anxious to see him and she had made an appointment for him to see the Chief Superintendent later that day . |
| 12 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 13 | ‘ I was telling Sir Henry that it was rather late in the year for him to see the true beauty of the moor . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There 's another legacy of £1,000 , this time to his friend Martin Burger , ‘ more than enough for that new pair of spectacles which I hope may improve his judgement and help him to see the obvious . ’ |
| 15 | A tube of Winsor blue for Alan Tate , spectacles for Burger … ‘ which I hope may improve his judgement and help him to see the obvious . ’ |
| 16 | However , maybe Stalinvast still survived , and the Tormentum Malorum might yet leave the warp in time for him to compel the old woman to send a signal to save the situation . |
| 17 | It also allowed him to include a wide range of ‘ non-sacred ’ ideas and images which colour our lives from the cradle to the grave , not least those of loving and sexuality . |
| 18 | Fanatics carry a huge ball and chain , a weapon so large that it would be impossible for a Goblin to pick up in normal circumstances , but the Fanatic 's strength is boosted by fungus beer enabling him to swing the heavy ball round and round . |
| 19 | He was the landlord of the Dowlais ironworks , in the 1840s the largest ironworks in the world , and his paltry returns from the Dowlais lease caused him to drive a hard bargain with those seeking the coal of his estate . |
| 20 | As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism . |
| 21 | We have asked him to lodge a formal vote of confidence in the government when the Congress resumes today , ’ one source said . |
| 22 | According to the patient , she had made patently clear her refusal to allow him to perform a vaginal or rectal examination because of a history of child sexual abuse by her doctor father . |
| 23 | He gave private shows for relatives before his teacher at Middleton-in-Teesdale primary school asked him to perform a weekly trick before the class . |
| 24 | A young , green horse will be weak but if worked correctly will gradually build up the necessary muscle to enable him to perform the required movements . |
| 25 | After several rejections the war artists ' committee grudgingly asked him to paint an underground bomb store near Burton-on-Trent in 1942 . |
| 26 | Despite Dick Crossman 's native love of a row , there was not sufficient of the political fighter about him to light the blue touchpaper regardless . |
| 27 | In our opinion his health will no longer enable him to sustain the heavy burdens inseparable from the office of Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Kerr was Millwall 's leading scorer and a contender for Player of the Year until an ankle injury forced him to miss the closing weeks of last season . |
| 29 | This led him to compare the legal codes of archaic and modern societies in much the same manner as Maine had done . |
| 30 | The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing . |