Example sentences of "him of [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was this radar-like scanning of the night around him , which warned him of a new impending danger .
2 As on many occasions when drink is taken , it ended up in tears and in a finger-wagging shouting match with the Labour leader , John Smith , accusing him of a stark betrayal of promises .
3 She reminded him of a young colt : there were moments when her legs seemed much too long and her posture quite unladylike — and others when , caught unawares in a reverie , she had all the poise of a marquesa .
4 But clearly there is a point beyond which restrictions can not reasonably be imposed on the grounds of good neighbourliness without payment of compensation — and ‘ general considerations of regional or national policy require so great a restriction on the landowner 's use of his land as to amount to a taking away from him of a proprietary interest in the land ’ .
5 In the valley of Minas Morgul the Ringwraith sends out a command for him to put it on , but Frodo finds no response to it in his own will , feeling only ‘ the beating upon him of a great power from outside ’ .
6 They reminded him of a Distant Early Warning System .
7 The family continued to play a significant part in Anglo-French affairs : in January 1317 , Jean , sire de Fiennes , wrote to Edward II as his loyal vassal in Ponthieu , informing him of a rumoured scheme for the partition of the kingdom of France on the death of Louis X. His motive was not entirely altruistic , for Fiennes was a chief ally and supporter of the rebellious Robert of Artois , and hoped for English aid in the form of ships with which to enter Calais and St Omer .
8 On their account I excuse the absence in him of a warm heart , a vivid imagination , and a grand style : for he has none of those great gifts .
9 ‘ . The House of Lords held that ‘ the action ’ must be founded on a pre-existing cause of action against the defendant arising out of an invasion , actual or threatened , by him of a legal or equitable right of the plaintiff for the enforcement of which the defendant is amenable to the jurisdiction of the court .
10 A dissident intellectual passing out leaflets at a factory gate reminds him of a nervous child offering a sugar lump to a large horse .
11 The encounter could be read as establishing that he has been silly , while clearing him of a certain … imputation .
12 It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy .
13 It is Sergeant Eddie Grant at the RMP Control Room , warning him of a possible major problem in the Soviet Sector .
14 He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead .
15 The concavity beneath the hip-bone reminded him of a little valley high in the hills of Tuscany or Sicily , bare , smooth and satisfying .
16 This should assure him of a bright future with ‘ The Stiffs ’ and , in all probability , lead to the club captaincy next season .
17 For no reason he could think of the rooms reminded him of a deserted stage set when the play has ended its run and the actors have gone .
18 The Corporal instructor spoke quietly in his ear , reminding him of a few basics , and unobtrusively removed the lift bar at the same time .
19 It might remind him of a few school episodes he will have made sure to forget . ’
20 What strikes him of a sudden , as he remembers this experience , is how it had been foreseen and marmoreally recorded by Virgil : as Virgil 's Aeneas left doomed Troy , carrying his household and ancestral gods , so Pound leaves the doomed Rome of fascist Italy , carrying in his haversack his gods — books by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and T. E. Hulme and Percy Wyndham Lewis .
21 The news of my pregnancy would shatter him ( convincing him of an immaculate conception would have been easier . )
22 Baburin repeatedly polled more votes than Khasbulatov , because a group of about 150 deputies in the Smena ( " change " ) group , a part of Democratic Russia , refused to support Khasbulatov , accusing him of an authoritarian style of leadership .
23 He said that looking out from the platform towards the town reminded him of the late President Kennedy looking out over the Berlin Wall .
24 Duncan had asked , when Myeloski told him of the strange situation in which they had found Leeming .
25 By the time Adam and Billie were drinking their coffees , the contact had interrupted Kragan at a training meeting and told him of the two foreigners in the Bellevue Hotel who were enquiring about the Dresden Heide .
26 Mr. Davies : When the Secretary of State next meets the chairman , will he tell him of the deep anger and resentment in west Wales that British Coal is walking away from the anthracite coalfield , with its enormous reserves of high quality and saleable coal ?
27 A working ormolu and bronze lion mantel clock — Louis Quinze , he could almost hear his wife Carole exclaiming — reminded him of the relentless passage of time .
28 A 19-year-old brunette who worked in ‘ Back and Sides ’ , an Arden hairdresser 's , she reminded him of the young Alma Cogan .
29 Because Pound was not a combatant , and because he resolutely resisted making easily patriotic and self-righteous gestures ( this is what Homage to Sextus Propertius is about , very largely ) , the impact upon him of the First World War is under-estimated .
30 Rees thereupon complained to the European Commission of Human Rights that , by refusing to alter the recorded sex on his birth certificate , the United Kingdom , through its law , is depriving him of the legal status corresponding to his actual condition , to which he is rightfully entitled by Article 8 .
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