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

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1 By making his close friend Prince Aleksandr Bariatinskii Viceroy of the Caucasus and ordering him to take all necessary steps to bring the campaign against Shamil to a successful conclusion , the tsar gave an innovator scope for the exercise of his talents .
2 ‘ First thing : you ca n't just haul off and smack a dog in the snout and expect him to turn tail and run away . ’
3 It crossed his mind that an hour earlier , receiving this news , he could have cut off Siward 's escape from the field and forced him to finish the battle .
4 ‘ How are you going to get the Glory and convince him to come ? ’
5 Confused , she went after him down the winding stairs into the kitchen and let him organise hot drinks .
6 Ballater saw one of the farm-hands going over to the shippon and told him to fetch Craddock and see to the bull .
7 I struck him in the chest and sent him reeling .
8 I have dedicated him to the blessed St John the Baptist and had him circumcised . ’
9 He eventually let go of me and I had to go the bottom of the baths and bring him to the surface , take him to the side and get him breathing again , and I was considered a failure for that .
10 Behind me Nathan is having problems , his wooden runners sticking in the snow and causing him to go slowly .
11 His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her .
12 In that moment she was n't sure if she could fling decorum to the wind and beg him to make love to her again , right there , standing up in the blackness of Ghar Hasan .
13 Everybody knew the tram drivers and used to hop on the front of the car up to the nearest point of the station and then jump off , and the superintendent was on the car and saw him getting on .
14 They put the stranger down on the outskirts and left him standing in the middle of the road , his face in shadow under his cap and just a glimmer of those white , pebbly eyes .
15 ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy .
16 She sent Midnight to the end of the rein and got him trotting .
17 Have the bowman on the front of the boat and get him to indicate distance to the line with his fingers .
18 Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal .
19 Clement 's final assistance to Edward came in 1306 when , resisting the king 's call to deprive or translate Winchelsey , he suspended the primate and summoned him to exile in the Curia .
20 When he returned to his office some two hours later , it was to hear from Mrs. Mott that Lord Coleworthy had been on the telephone and wanted him to ring back when he came in .
21 Sweet and Quine both played guitar for Lloyd Cole back in 1990 — Sweet live , and Quine live and on the record — but while Lloyd Cole kept Quine on a leash , refining his parts and cutting and reconstructing his solos , Sweet just tosses him the keys and lets him rip .
22 Gripping the bannister , she looked down into the hall and saw him standing with his back to the door , looking about him as though wondering if he would find her there .
23 ‘ The days must go when they can wake up a judge at dead of night , give him a drop of brandy , show him a headline from The Sun and get him to sign an injunction , ’ Mr Todd said .
24 With particular pride he notes how in the crisis of 1124 , when the king of England and the emperor were allied against him , and Henry V planned an attack on Rheims , Louis put himself dramatically under the protection of St Denis , ‘ the special patron and singular protector after God of the kingdom ’ ; how he came to the saint and begged him to defend his kingdom , preserve his person and resist his enemies , as the saint was accustomed to do .
25 Envoys have already been sent to the Norwegian court to apprise King Eric of the circumstances and to beg him to send the Maid back to Scotland as soon as possible .
26 I found one of the drummers and let him have a tape and he loved it .
27 They had one day captured some andarte — resistance fighters — from the mainland and ordered him to execute them .
28 And when he had undone her gown , and had difficulty in lifting it over her head , she raised herself from the pillow and helped him to take it off .
29 HERA , Zeus ' wife , was jealous of the child and cursed him to travel the earth , bestowing the gift of wine-making on those who were kind to him and sending insane those who treated him badly .
30 The documentary follows Alistair through his year at the Institute and shows him jamming with Albert Lee and Jerry Donahue .
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