Example sentences of "him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry bargaining was also preferable to employers in Italy since it allowed their associations to maintain a tight control on bargaining activities whilst at the same time freeing the individual employer from direct impact with the union — yet giving him ample leeway to influence his employees from outside union channels ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | These Imperial durbars were Inayat Khan 's favourite material , giving him ample occasion to tug his forelock and fill the pages of the Shah Jehan Nama with paeans to the generosity of his Imperial paymaster . |
| 3 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 4 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 5 | It gave him ample time to check the house . |
| 6 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 7 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 8 | He took with him strange plants and birds to show the King and Queen . |
| 9 | Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain . |
| 10 | I give him that assurance . |
| 11 | Razak said afterwards that when Soviet officials told him that neutralisation was similar to collective security he replied that ‘ he appreciated this , but added that Malaysia preferred a neutrality plan which would be applicable to a smaller region such as Southeast Asia ’ . |
| 12 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 13 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 14 | Why did this boy arouse in him that nostalgia , that sensation of something altogether extinct . |
| 15 | Then in the spring of 1105 Anselm received a letter from the pope telling him that sentence of excommunication had been passed on Robert of Meulan and other royal counsellors , but that sentence on the king was delayed because the messengers whom the king ought to have sent to Rome before Easter had not arrived . |
| 16 | What happened to him that year is typical of what has often happened at Ferrari : questions of detail . |
| 17 | And probably he would have found the Whistler more understandable than the pop star whose gyrations would surely have convinced him that man was in the grip of his final , manic St Vitus 's dance . |
| 18 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 19 | He sighed deeply : he had insisted upon her accompanying him that day in order to enjoy the last precious hours of her innocence and happiness . |
| 20 | She visited him that day . |
| 21 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 22 | Something had died in him that day ; and , at the same time , something had been born . |
| 23 | She spoiled several more chases for him that day by surreptitiously dragging her fox-reeking bag wherever their quarry held them to a check . |
| 24 | Marc was as good as his word and Sarella saw no more of him that day . |
| 25 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |
| 26 | Oh you saw him that day did n't you ? |
| 27 | To this day the world sees him that way . |
| 28 | I looked for bubbles rising , hoping to find him that way , and saw not bubbles but a red stain in the water a short way off , a swirl of colour against drab . |
| 29 | I would cheat him that way . |
| 30 | I certainly would see him that way . |