Example sentences of "him [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Dumas grew jealous of the workmanship and insisted on the Bey lending him the best craftsmen , saying ‘ you need that room only after your death , but I need your craftsmen while I am alive ’ . |
2 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
3 | Rain showed him the offending paragraphs . |
4 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
5 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
6 | By the time of Safdarjung 's death , the Persian Nadir Shah had been and gone , carrying with him the accumulated riches of eight generations of Empire . |
7 | Behind him the tartan curtains of the drawing room framed a view of ten yards of sodden lawn and a curtain of heavy rain . |
8 | I could tell him anything , even share with him the contradictory motives within my personality , and he would still love and accept me . |
9 | The best preserved of all , beautiful and often illustrated , shows Herakles supporting the sky while Atlas brings him the golden apples and Athena prepares to help them exchange roles.93 This comes from the east end and conforms strictly to pattern : figures ranged against the flat ground , in simple postures , frontal or profile . |
10 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
11 | And to warn him the long knives were out . |
12 | Others are less concerned with perfect indexing , but rather demand that the searcher exercise his skills thoroughly , offering him the appropriate facilities to do so . |
13 | Around him the other machines were silent , closed down . |
14 | I 'm c look let me just give him the two options . |
15 | Talbot handed him the two messages . |
16 | She handed him the two parts of the torch and waited for him to piece the thing together . |
17 | In front of him the two men had separated , reacted to the shout , and then to the sight of the gun . |
18 | She gave him the two packets , each holding five cigarettes , received his fourpence , smiled at him and said , ‘ Thank you very much . ’ |
19 | The state of the microscopist 's art is now such that the choice of instrument to use depends largely on what he wants to see , and in some applications the acoustic microscope may give him the sharpest pictures ever . |
20 | In Lawrence 's Women in Love , completed in 1916 , Birkin contemplates the purchase of a ‘ clear , beautiful chair ’ which expresses for him the living thoughts of ‘ England , even Jane Austen 's England ’ , before these were destroyed by ‘ sordid and foul mechanicalness ’ . |
21 | He keeps with him the Thirteen Treasures of Britain which are ancient talismans and magical objects . |
22 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
23 | Around him the usual Massgoers , Benedicta included , watched fascinated as Athelstan urged the soul to go out to meet his Christ , whilst he , Athelstan , priest of that church , summoned God 's army to meet this unfortunate man 's soul ; they were to lead it into Paradise and ensure it did not fall into the hands of Satan . |
24 | In front of him the torpid lizards stirred in their cage on the picture box . |
25 | I decided it was a good time to ask him the final questions about Stapleton and the hound . |
26 | New friendships , as much as politics and poetry , transformed for him the final years of school . |
27 | Not for him the cynical moralities of Pauson , who presented humanity worse than it is , or the fidelity of the painter Dionysus to observable particularity : he was beauty 's slave , and beauty is made , he knew , not found . |
28 | This danger is well demonstrated by the early efforts made to help culturally disadvantaged children , many of which simply provided each child with a dose of relevant training during the pre-school period in the expectation that this on its own would give him the required extras for normal cognitive development . |
29 | The bookies gave him the tightest odds of any of the outgoing MPs , but he was still two-to-one on to win . |
30 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |