Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty-two years of professional conditioning left him no alternative . |
| 2 | As we noted earlier , one of the reasons why Franco ultimately revised his former anti-western attitudes was that the crisis of economic autarchy left him little choice . |
| 3 | ( For " The Dry Salvages " he had even written out lists of rhyming words to assist him . ) |
| 4 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |
| 5 | This new sense of topographical security left him free to explore theories about art , the novel in particular , and see his writing as more than ‘ mere journeywork ’ . |
| 6 | He looked up at the circle of menacing faces surrounding him . |
| 7 | He also confesses that , in short bursts , the role of theatrical entrepreneur excites him . |
| 8 | But just as he had used her agoraphobia as a defence against having to know about his need to find her safely where he had left her , so too did her lack of sexual response defend him from knowing about his need to keep her under his control . |
| 9 | He — far less usually she — is an inadequate individual whose lack of sexual capability leads him to rely on an activity which affords sexual pleasure with minimal active participation . |
| 10 | Our police are so busy trying to catch the culprits , but then I read in the Press last week of a young man causing £60,000 of damage by graffiti and getting off free because it would be a waste of public money to put him on probation . |
| 11 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 12 | The odour of fried bacon surrounded him , and a dirty plate and cutlery , pushed to the corner of the table , showed that Albert had just finished his evening meal . |
| 13 | His savage etchings of the leading figures of English society brought him fame , if not fortune . |
| 14 | But they will have to beat off a challenge from French millionaires Monaco , who head a posse of foreign clubs shadowing him at Forest . |
| 15 | It may at times become chaotic and disordered , but that , that 's not the normal state of affairs , and Hobbes ' analysis of social order leads him to conclude that social order only becomes possible , when individuals give up some of their freedom , to centralize authority . |
| 16 | This seems to have been the last of Hope 's involvement in actual building , and with the founding of the Saturday , he turned to journalism , although in 1865 the Institute of British Architects elected him as their President . |
| 17 | The older , more conservative generation of Japanese businessmen finds him brash . |
| 18 | The career of paranoid psychotic attracts him , particularly as a way of coping with the inevitable consequence of his defiant style of living the criminal life . |
| 19 | Don Juan today has lost whatever sympathetic press the years of male domination gave him . |
| 20 | A noise of stifled laughter charmed him . |
| 21 | He wore riding-gear and a bowler , a stick tucked underneath his arm , and his air of unhurried authority gave him a matchless glamour . |
| 22 | A few short years ago he stood unrivalled as the best player in the country , but a series of niggling injuries left him kicking his heels in frustration . |
| 23 | The distrust which Dicey felt concerning this tendency of party government to destroy the balance of parliamentary institutions caused him to advocate the use of various institutional control devices . |
| 24 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 25 | Twoflower had posed alongside a bewildered charm-seller , his crowd of new-found admirers watching him with interest in case he did something humorously lunatic . |
| 26 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 27 | Only these little bits of bogus power enable him to think he is in control of what he sees as the correct father-son relationship . |
| 28 | He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men . |
| 29 | This and his expression of heavy-lidded scepticism gave him more the appearance of an Old Etonian stockbroker than a policeman . |
| 30 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |