Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the House of Commons he could at least rely upon one of the whips to put him in a cab , and pay the driver . |
| 2 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 3 | Except in the rare case when the board itself think it desirable , as a matter of fairness , to ask one of the members to interview him . |
| 4 | ‘ The cry of Versailles and the clamour of Paris became as loud in favour of Monsieur Jones as of Monsieur Franklin , ’ wrote Franklin himself , ‘ and the inclination of the ladies to embrace him almost as fashionable and as strong . ’ |
| 5 | Charlotte was glad of the excuse to leave him and busy herself in the kitchen . |
| 6 | We were going to talk about his subject of the day to put him at ease , and then just come out with it — ‘ By the way I 've got a joke for you Dave … ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I have been trying to get him out of the pram to get him ready for nursery but not now . |
| 8 | Now he needed more details of the case to help him . |
| 9 | It would have been nice , however , if the band had informed Gannon of the decision to fire him before the rumours spread through the Mancunian underground . |
| 10 | No words could be clawed out of the air to calm him . |
| 11 | He 'd just get one of the harem to comfort him . ’ |
| 12 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 13 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 14 | Weir quickly got wind of the plan to remove him and discussed the matter with the bailie , James Graham , and the latter had to agree that there was no blame which could be attached to Weir 's conduct beyond his recent irregular attendance , but it was hardly possible for a court to function without a prosecutor , and although Weir was going to have to go , James Graham insisted that ‘ it should be done in the most decent manner and almost with his own consent ’ . |
| 15 | None the less the king did summon the officers of the Exchequer to join him in Oxford ; Pye 's colleague , who was also his ‘ comptroller ’ and administrative rival , the clerk of the pells , obeyed this call . |
| 16 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 17 | Had he known the facts of the attempts to reach him , the trapped man would have despaired of ever being rescued alive . |
| 18 | There was no reason for the driver of the Peugeot to copy him . |
| 19 | Also , like the liquidator , the administrative receiver can compel those involved in the affairs of the company to provide him with information relating to the company 's affairs and is also obliged to report to the Secretary of State if he forms the opinion that the conduct of a director makes him unfit to act as a director of a company . |
| 20 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
| 21 | If an adult patient did not have the capacity to decide at the time of the purported refusal and still does not have that capacity , it is the duty of the doctors to treat him in whatever way they consider , in the exercise of their clinical judgment , to be in his best interests . |
| 22 | But his daughters , on whom he is as dependent as a baby , refuse to get up in what they call the middle of the night to enable him to pursue his observations . |
| 23 | The film director claimed his former lover regularly rang him in the middle of the night to scare him . |
| 24 | And now it 's been lovingly found again by the management of the hotel to welcome him . |
| 25 | Two of the Kamalians only needed a couple of metres of the wire to render him helpless and under continual self-torture . |
| 26 | In the play , Cyrano de Bergerac 's single voice was more effective to drive the bad actor Montfleury off the stage than the protests of all the rest of the audience to restrain him . |
| 27 | Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of attempting a coup and called for an emergency session of the Congress to dismiss him . |
| 28 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 29 | Instead , she stepped out of the shade to meet him . |
| 30 | Sources also pointed to the swift response of troops loyal to General Noriega , especially the 7th Infantry , as evidence that he can still count on important parts of the military to back him up . |