Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Istvan Gati , as the Persian King , Orontes , is a sensational baritone with a clear , passionate tone , although his baritone Jozsef Moldvay sounds as though he has something stuck at the back o his mouth , a bit of dust maybe , which causes him to deliver the interpretation of his role in a somewhat unexpected manner . |
| 2 | Nor must this emphasis on the proprietary and financial aspects of a shareholder 's rights obscure the important fact that his shareholding causes him to become a member of an association , normally with rights to take part in its deliberation by attending and voting at its general meetings . |
| 3 | Gifted though mankind is in creating sheer wanton destruction , nature has him whacked every time . ’ |
| 4 | The child of seven who can read fluently will not be held back so that an identical level of attainment can be achieved by all : the slow learner will not become the victim of a system which challenges him to achieve a goal which is unattainable . |
| 5 | The youth may want to buy a motor bike , but his mother wants him to purchase an old car because she thinks bikes are dangerous and will get him into bad company . |
| 6 | housekeeping money for he wants him to learn the , the value of money |
| 7 | His landlord wants him to pay a further $170 to make up for the deposit that 's gone missing . |
| 8 | From his first appearance as the languid young aristo to his final entrance as a surgical case in a wheelchair , Rupert Everett makes the character as much Harlequin as Mephistopheles , and the magnetic allure with which he endows him balances the brittle cynicism and affectation of a man who measures every word for effect . |
| 9 | When Pistol appears , ‘ swelling like a turkey-cock ’ , perhaps like the old tragic actors who ‘ strutted and bellowed ’ , Fluellen beats his pate and forces him to eat the leek raw ( V.ii . ) . |
| 10 | His use of ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ heretical ’ allows him to sidestep the terms ‘ classical ’ and ‘ romantic , , so incorporating elements otherwise labelled ‘ romantic ’ into the structure of his tradition which had been sanctified with an anthropological definition . |
| 11 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 12 | Home video shows him enjoying a family Christmas but detectives believe he did n't live long enough to see in the New Year . |
| 13 | J. Riley , aged 14 , started his apprenticeship on 31 July 1903 at 45 and the wage-book shows him getting the regular rises described above . |
| 14 | The eighties saw a change of label for Johnny , switching to Alligator Records and producing the album Guitar Slinger , the cover of which shows him playing the small , headless guitar he still uses today . |
| 15 | He was accustomed to conventional envy from some of his contemporaries ( although it could still distress him — Joseph Chiari recalls him leaving a party in Edinburgh because of the atmosphere of jealousy which he sensed there ) . |
| 16 | Basil Peacock recalls him having a specially made iron club which fixed into his partial right arm , and was adjustable for loft by manipulation between his feet . |
| 17 | Reason tells him he is mad to want to continue farming , but the desire to do so leads him to rationalise the decision as best he can . |
| 18 | This leads him to see the growth of the wage-allowance scheme as a response to problems of unemployment and underemployment which , while they became more visible in years of high food prices , were inherent in social and economic changes taking place in the Speenhamland counties . |
| 19 | The rub is the general conviction , based on the man 's record , that the same pragmatism , unencumbered by ideology or ethics , that leads him to sign an agreement one day will lead him to renege or cheat on it the next . |
| 20 | This leads him to offer a somewhat partial view of Foucault 's important work . |
| 21 | Indeed , the explanation proposed by Givon actually leads him to distort the data in English to fit the " universally attested " semantic properties used as tools of analysis . |
| 22 | This same impulse leads him to recall the life of Harry Fonstein , a distant friend who miraculously escaped the Nazi holocaust , thanks to an underground operation masterminded by the Broadway impresario Billy Rose , or ‘ Bella Rosa ’ as his name sounds when whispered in excitable Italian . |
| 23 | His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat , albeit heavily cloaked in ‘ ideology ’ . |
| 24 | Broadly speaking , Derrida 's rigorous and far-reaching exploration of the implications of Saussure 's claim , that ‘ in language there are only differences without positive terms ’ , leads him to question the key concepts of structuralism ( in particular , sign and structure ) and its methodology ( as represented by poetics and semiology ) . |
| 25 | He means ‘ sell ’ , but etiquette leads him to avoid the word . |
| 26 | It is his obsession with figures that leads him to make the crucial economic mistakes that he made . |
| 27 | Tomorrow is his Feast Day , but little is known about the life of this fourth-century divine ; he was renowned as a preacher and energetic founder of nunneries , and raised the funds to build the basilica in Verona where a statue depicts him holding a fishing-rod . |
| 28 | It may be , of course , that the intention is to numb his senses before he gets to the umpteenth and penultimate clause which requires him to foot the bill for the monstrosity . |
| 29 | ( 10 ) An order on originating summons which orders the convening of the meeting(s) of shareholders , directs the target to advertise the notice of meeting(s) , appoints the chairman of the meeting(s) and requires him to report the results of the meeting(s) to the court . |
| 30 | It is the dreadful Lillibet who discovers Harry 's secret when she finds him raiding the fridge one night wearing his wife 's underwear . |