Example sentences of "him [art] [noun sg] [prep] be " in BNC.

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1 This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists .
2 The relief sought by the applicant was , inter alia , ( 1 ) an order of certiorari to quash the section 2(2) notice dated 24 June 1991 issued by the Director ; and ( 2 ) an order prohibiting her from requiring or further requiring him to attend and comply with the requirements of a notice issued pursuant to section 2 of the Act of 1987 without ( a ) affording him a reasonable opportunity for his application for legal aid to be processed and thereby affording him the opportunity to be legally advised on such requirements and to be legally represented at such time as he was required to comply with them and ( b ) causing him to be cautioned in accordance with Code C , paragraph 16.5 before being required to comply with those requirements .
3 ‘ I am giving him the chance to be his own publisher , ’ said Mr Maxwell .
4 Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other .
5 I had to try to give him a chance to be independent .
6 Now , bent and rheumaticky and crosser than ever , Ruth and her sister Joan Young found him a figure to be pitied rather than feared , but both agreed that he was an evil-tempered old man and they felt very sorry for his only daughter Molly who kept house for him .
7 But at the work-place the pursuit of profit allows him no time to be distracted with personal pursuits better attended to elsewhere .
8 It wo n't do him no harm to be out of his mother 's apron-strings fer a bit longer .
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