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 . |