Example sentences of "in [art] [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is now at Krasnoyarsk , near Moscow , because officials in the capital told him to move on . |
| 2 | But it was his birthday , so he invented a hiccup in the engine to let him take it up for height testing . |
| 3 | The men in the smithy seized him ; and one of them took a hammer and drove a nail into the sole of his boot . |
| 4 | His friends on the Union committee thought that what happened was best accounted for if he saw a vision of his dead mother in the gallery watching him speak . |
| 5 | Daisy said , ‘ He told Sister he 'd like our Charlie to stay in the Hall to give him the chance to get his nerve back in easy stages . |
| 6 | He looked taller than I had imagined him : it was said that the platforms on which he stood always had an elevated section in the middle to raise him up . |
| 7 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 8 | According to him Beatrice was so jealous that she locked Modi up in the cottage to keep him from going off with other women . |
| 9 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 10 | and then give him a game and take his mind off it , and take him in the kitchen give him |
| 11 | Gould received an official apology from West Midlands police yesterday over their part in the decision to force him to stay away from the Cup replay , but he may still take legal action . |
| 12 | Maybe he thinks being a Sergeant in the Engineers makes him too good to work for ordinary folk . |
| 13 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 14 | The men in the trenches adored him because when there was no enemy in the air he would ‘ distract ’ them by hurling his red plane ( a colour scheme later appropriated by von Richthofen ) into terrifying — and strictly forbidden — aerobatics over the front line . |
| 15 | The lamp outside in the yard bathed him in grey light , leaving his eyes in deep shadow so that his face resembled that of a corpse . |
| 16 | For a time Bond was a bigger draw than Elvis , making Connery intensely glamorous and almost absurdly famous ; college kids in the Bahamas mobbed him shouting : ‘ You 're our leader , we 're your people ! ’ |
| 17 | Sometimes , when he was writing , she hung around in the conservatory to keep him company . |
| 18 | I met him once , in the late 1980s , a year or so before his death , in a pub in Camden Town : he was a quick , if ageing , inquisitive and half-bolting creature : more for his thick spectacles than his literary associations , other drinkers in the pub called him ‘ The Professor ’ . |
| 19 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 20 | Quickly I hurled two magical fireballs , both hit the creature of the night square in the chest reducing him to a pile of smouldering bones . |
| 21 | Enough of him had , however , remained in the present to enable him to present a powerful case for the area 's preservation and to prophesy that the objectors would win . |
| 22 | In March this year the film industry in the USA awarded him a special Oscar for his outstanding contribution to world cinema . |
| 23 | Instead a blunder in the opening left him a pawn down , on the verge of defeat . |
| 24 | Jack Pertwee was getting married in the morning and the Kingsmarkham and District Darts Club were in the Dragon to give him what George Carter called a send-off . |
| 25 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 26 | At Tannadice yesterday , Booth fell just one short of that total , revelling in the assistance offered him by Ferguson 's undoubted physical threat amid a nervous-looking Maltese defence . |
| 27 | The duties of a trustee may be indefinitely varied by the terms of the instrument which creates the trust , and may range from a mere duty to make a legal conveyance to the beneficiary at his request , and in the meantime to permit him to possess and enjoy the property , to extensive and onerous duties of management , sale , investment , and application of capital and income . |
| 28 | The most muttered-against official is the director of campaigning , John Lacy , though no one in the organisation expects him to go before the election . |
| 29 | Social services say the action was ’ not satisfactory ’ , but because of a shortage of staff , Mr Chandler was put in the trolley to stop him wandering off . |
| 30 | When he came to Toronto , in Canada , there were 500,000 people in the streets to meet him . |