Example sentences of "him of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ken said — he came for Sunday lunch now , often with his stepdaughter but without his wife , who felt awkward in Ellen 's presence — that it reminded him of a kitten he 'd given Wendy on the day she gave birth to Apricot . |
| 2 | In O'Reilly v. Mackman the House of Lords held that a prisoner who was seeking to challenge ( on the ground of breach of natural justice ) a decision of a Board of Prison Visitors which had the effect of depriving him of a remission of sentence , had to use AJR procedure because he had no private law right to a remission but only a legitimate expectation that the remission would be granted if no disciplinary sentence of forfeiture of remission had been made against him . |
| 3 | They advised him of a way round the ‘ export licensing of strategic goods ’ — by describing the goods as harmless . |
| 4 | Willis was much more cheerful and said it reminded him of a boarding house in the old days . " |
| 5 | 52 concerned the grant by the Shipping Controller of a licence to sell a ship under an unlawful condition as to the payment to him of a proportion of the sale price . |
| 6 | Roberts took his tally for the season to 150 with a treble on Carousel Music , True Story and Shuailaan at Windsor , only for Lloyd to rob him of a four-timer by beating him on Brigante Di Cielo . |
| 7 | These things grind exceeding slow , but in Denver , Colorado , charges have finally been brought against Q T Wiles , the former chairman of MiniScribe Corp , accusing him of a scheme to inflate the figures in books of the disk-drive maker : the US District Court indictment alleges that Wiles reaped $1.7m in profits from the sale of MiniScribe stock using inside information about the now-defunct disk company . |
| 8 | Word reached him of a Corsair in southern France , and after viewing the airframe , Harris purchased it from the French authorities for $ 1,000 , and shipped it to San Francisco in early 1974 . |
| 9 | HE DID NOT know why but , upstairs , Amelia 's house reminded him of a jungle . |
| 10 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 11 | And one recalls that people not well-disposed to Mr Byrne accused him of a measure of unhelpfulness . |
| 12 | There survives a report by him of a meeting of the Masai Tribal Council — an invention of the British — at which he addressed those present in a most autocratic manner , to the point of publicly reprimanding the laibon for neglecting his duties . |
| 13 | Was stripped by him of a number of important contracts . |
| 14 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 15 | The final goal of all the Waldens , Dimblebys , and Days is to hit the headlines on the news broadcasts ( or in the next day 's papers ) by tripping up their interviewee or extorting an apology from him , or convicting him of a contradiction . |
| 16 | Mutely he blessed her for the information and , after quickly slaking his appetite , he was drawn — as if he had no will of his own — to the pothouse , where he picked up Joanna , went out with her into the fields , and made love with a sweating savagery which seemed to satisfy even her and delivered him of a madness which had gathered like an abscess . |
| 17 | They were dressed in sober lounge suits and conversed in low voices , reminding him of a flock of rather dowdy sparrows pecking away at their food . |
| 18 | The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs . |
| 19 | It not only puts another nail in socialism 's coffin , but deprives him of a peerage . |
| 20 | It was a remarkable turn around in fortunes for the England No 3 , and almost certainly assures him of a place in the British team for this summer 's Olympics . |
| 21 | Three Shield centuries , all made briskly , in the 1934–35 season ensured him of a place on Vic Richardson 's Australian tour of South Africa the following season , and he contributed steadily with two sixties and smart fielding as Australia , with their mighty spin attack , forged to a 4–0 victory . |
| 22 | Musso replied by abusing Sukarno , reviving the accusation that he had recruited romusha slave labour , accusing him of a sell-out to America . |
| 23 | In the slow movement , he generally retired into his own thoughts , poetically outlining the melodic shapes with a lyrical softness , but then , suddenly , landing lumpily on a note , as if the reverie had reminded him of a reality . |
| 24 | The voice was Coleridge 's , arguing that although the war had been costly to the rich , it had left them much ; ‘ but a PENNY taken from the pocket of a poor man might deprive him of a dinner ’ . |
| 25 | Prompt service on him of a Specification requiring production of wages information held by him , or books of account if he is a sole trader or in partnership , may be the basis of a rude awakening . |
| 26 | It is a long established rule of law that where a contracting party refuses to perform his contractual obligations by giving a wrong reason , this does not subsequently deprive him of a justification which in fact existed at the time of refusal ( see Taylor v Oakes ( 1922 ) 27 Com Cas 261 ; Braithwaite v Foreign Hardwood Co Ltd [ 1905 ] 2 KB 543 ; and Fercometal SARL v Mediterranean Shipping Co SA [ 1989 ] AC 788 discussed in Chapter 15 ) . |
| 27 | She 'd fallen desperately in love with a man who was n't in love with her , a man who 'd wanted her because she reminded him of a woman he wanted and could n't have . |
| 28 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
| 29 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 30 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |