Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] [verb] him [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president .
2 If she should mention to Constance that someone had treated her shabbily and Constance referred the matter to her brothers , they would uncomplainingly track down the brute and teach him manners .
3 That was the wave that earned him respect in Hawaii .
4 Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs .
5 VINNY Jones last night sensationally revealed the secrets that make him soccer 's hardest man .
6 He helps Crawford 's character , Jim Fenn , who also wants to play the cornet in the band but does not have one , to buy the instrument and gives him lessons .
7 He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes , and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl , which he places on a flat stone some distance away .
8 People come and clean the rooms and bring him food .
9 I took my prisoner to my secret cave on the other side of the island and gave him food and drink .
10 One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow .
11 I held up my hand very much in the manner of Salvius the tribune greeting Glabriolix the slave and giving him news of the Emperor 's dog , Pertinax .
12 Seth was himself a charming drug-addicted , dope-dealing , pimping , strip-show barker who found what looked like salvation and wrote the novel that won him acclaim and rebirth .
13 And , no doubt , if ever John Hall discovers the identity of the anonymous benefactor who spilt the beans , he will want to shake him warmly by the hand and offer him thanks on behalf of his club and the good of all in English rugby .
14 The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital .
15 STEPHEN HENDRY continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure as he strives for the form that made him world champion just ten months ago .
16 Take them back to the stall and get him pair of woolly ones come on .
17 Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement .
18 On his journey , fearful and probably suffering from reactionary depression , he slept a night under a broom bush , where he dreamed that an angel touched him on the shoulder and bade him rise and eat .
19 Then Joe called him to the railings and handed him sixpence .
20 James showed the class that won him PFA recognition , even though Boro fans may rate Pears the No.1 goalkeeper .
21 Oh , yes , I knew Marlowe the playwright and helped him stage his play Edward II .
22 As he went to the net , he raised one finger in the air as if to acknowledge the banners that proclaimed him No 1 — he might not be but the way he played last night he could be again soon .
23 I would offer a contract that allowed him exclusivity if he gets a minimum of 100 candidates in November 1993 and 200 during 1993/94 .
24 He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed .
25 Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number .
26 The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours .
27 His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him .
28 But she thought of how , if the positions had been reversed , she would have written pages full of detail to Ellen , would have described a child in such a way as to make him spring from the writing , alive and visible .
29 Richard Goldschmidt 's problem — which was one of a set that made him resort , for most of his professional life , to the extreme belief that evolution takes great leaps rather than small steps — turns out to be no problem at all .
30 Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence .
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