Example sentences of "him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For him the synthesis was asymptote towards which he was for ever approaching without ever quite reaching it ; it was a reality , incapable of complete realization . |
| 2 | I showed him the contents of the Green Box . |
| 3 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 4 | Made no move to show him the glass . |
| 5 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 6 | If a student has a habit of over-ruddering in turns , it is often worth showing him the effect on the stall of using even a slight amount of extra rudder in a gentle turn . |
| 7 | These are taught to the initiate to show him the accepted response to the vagaries of order , disorder , ambiguity , and ambivalence which lies in the complexities of social behaviour . |
| 8 | ‘ Oui , ’ she said , and gave him the folded note . |
| 9 | Behind him the minister stood as straight and shadowy as a cypress tree . |
| 10 | Byers was offering him the bottle . |
| 11 | Behind him the king . |
| 12 | It was to hound and hasten Leonard 's waking thoughts , eliminate any residual interest he may have possessed in mere intellectual commitment , and open to him the stark reality of life downtown . |
| 13 | Layton described the four things which stand out in Leonard , which give him the confidence to work as he does , and promote his work : The strong tradition of learning ; the business entrepreneurship of his family ; the broad philanthropy/charity which hall-marked it ; and , lastly , the self-awareness that comes from being a Cohen — not understood as class-distinction , but from the high symbolism of ‘ the priest and his role . ’ |
| 14 | She handed him the tube , being fairly and correctly sure he would not ask her outright to rub it in for him . |
| 15 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 16 | Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him . |
| 17 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 18 | This heritage gave and still attributes to him the ability to move fast , avoiding all obstacles , to do his master 's bidding . |
| 19 | Retirement allowed him the time to pursue his botanical interest , often in company with his children and grandchildren , between whom and Evan the devotion was mutual . |
| 20 | Crime and Punishment was different in that Dostoevsky never supposed lots of people would begin committing Raskolnikov-type murders ; Danilov doing so was enough to produce from him the exclamation ‘ It has happened ! ’ |
| 21 | She reads him the story of the Gadarene swine , the novel 's Epigraph . |
| 22 | And Olson wo n't let us squirm off the hook — for him the anti-Jewishness is symptom , not cause : |
| 23 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 24 | The odd anecdote — for instance , James Laughlin 's of 1965 about how she advanced his education in Rapallo by reading to him the stories of Henry James — brings her momentarily into focus , but then she disappears again behind a smokescreen of gracious good breeding . |
| 25 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 26 | ART SHELL 'S appointment as the new head coach of the Los Angeles Raiders makes him the the first black in that position in modern NFL history , but the club 's owner , Al Davis , immediately played down the importance of the move . |
| 27 | To his horror , Legia — obviously inspired by American television — decided to make him the $6m man , a fee which inevitably frightened off even the wealthy Italians . |
| 28 | The producer sent him the script , in case he was curious , but assured him there was no question of him appearing on stage in the role . |
| 29 | He complained once about Kavanagh 's poems being read on Irish radio in a vulgar Monaghan accent ; he saw his brother as a poetic giant among Dublin 's envious literary pygmies who filled the helpless bard with whiskey and made him the instrument of their Communist-homosexual conspiracies . |
| 30 | He was , par excellence , both Pole and European , looking forward eagerly to the day of the creation of a united Europe — to him the ‘ motherland of motherlands ’ — free from the control of or undue influence from the two super powers . |