Example sentences of "him [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is serving a 20-year sentence imposed in 1988 by a military court which found him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government . |
| 2 | As someone said at the time , ‘ I could believe him guilty of grievous bodily harm , but not grievous bodily charm . ’ |
| 3 | There was little dispute that D had committed the offence of dangerous driving , but did that automatically make him guilty of manslaughter when death resulted ? |
| 4 | Henry III 's interpretation of the Charter of the Forest was rejected by his subjects , who thought him guilty of a flagrant breach of the promises made by the Charter . |
| 5 | The jury took four hours yesterday after a nine-day trial to find him guilty of five charges of indecent assault . |
| 6 | To consider the issue in greater detail , the only circumstance under which his omission to treat his patient further could render him guilty of manslaughter is where he has failed to act in a situation where the criminal law imposes on him a duty to act and death has ensued . |
| 7 | If he were to discontinue treatment and merely make the child comfortable , the courts would not find him guilty of manslaughter . |
| 8 | In October a jury at Winchester Crown Court found him guilty of theft , perjury and fraudulent trading . |
| 9 | The board found him guilty of ‘ verbally abusing ’ tournament director Ann Yates and ‘ intimidating ’ referee John Street . |
| 10 | After a protracted investigation — ranging from Mr Hunt 's improper use of state aircraft for preaching tours , to his handling of political finances — a jury last week found him guilty of siphoning $100,000 from an inaugural fund into his own account . |
| 11 | He plays a photographer who spins a sinister web to trap prosecuting attorney Sean Young , who believes him guilty of sex crimes . |
| 12 | In Reg. v. Walhein ( 1952 ) 36 Cr.App.R. 167 , before the days of majority verdicts , after the jury had returned to court and one juror had said : ‘ I can not in my own mind find him guilty of the charge which prosecuting counsel have not proved , ’ the commissioner at the Central Criminal Court then said : |
| 13 | Following repeated breaches of the orders the judge , in the contemnor 's presence , found him guilty of contempt of court and committed him to prison for eight months . |
| 14 | On 11 June 1992 the husband was arrested at the wife 's house and on 12 June Judge Woodford , finding him guilty of breaches of the injunctions of 12 September 1991 and 12 May 1992 , sentenced him to eight months ' imprisonment for contempt of court . |
| 15 | It is arguable that this would be right ; but on the whole it seems to us that , whatever view is taken of the buyer 's moral duty , the law would be too strict if it made him guilty of theft . |
| 16 | If a person is rightly charged with larceny , but the jury in reliance on section 44(3) mistakenly convict him of obtaining by false pretences , the Court of Criminal Appeal can not substitute a verdict of guilty of larceny under section 5(2) of the Criminal Appeal Act 1907 ; for the verdict implies an acquittal of larceny , so that it can not ‘ [ appear ] to the Court of Criminal Appeal that the jury must have been satisfied of facts which proved him guilty of [ larceny ] ’ ( Rex v. Fisher ( 1921 ) 16 Cr.App.R. 53 ) . |
| 17 | No one believed him guilty of financial dishonesty but the governor , John Elphinstone ( thirteenth Baron Elphinstone , q.v. ) , demanded restitution of the money . |
| 18 | Thus , it is contrary to natural justice to inform an individual of only one complaint against him if there are two , or to find him guilty of a different offence from the one he was actually charged with . |
| 19 | She and Oliver believed him guilty of murder , she had no idea what Cobalt believed . |
| 20 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 21 | Opponents of Meciar in Public Against Violence ( PAV , the senior partner in the ruling coalition ) , which he had effectively split in March by forming a separate minority faction [ see p. 38106 ] , had allied with the CDM in arranging a parliamentary investigation into Meciar 's recent conduct , which found him guilty of incompetence , lying , and abusing his access to former secret police files . |
| 22 | On April 30 a Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court judge sentenced a police station commander , Brian Mitchell , to death after finding him guilty of murdering 11 black mourners at a funeral in December 1988 . |
| 23 | A French jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three-day trial in Paris . |
| 24 | Jones is not challenging the verdict of the FA commission , which found him guilty of bringing the game into disrepute , but he hopes for a reduction in the heaviest punishment ever imposed on an individual player . |
| 25 | He was jailed for four years at the High Court , Edinburgh in July 1992 when a jury found him guilty of indecently assaulting an 18-year-old boy he met in St Andrews Bus Station , Edinburgh . |
| 26 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 27 | ‘ Perhaps I shall watch while she drinks her fill of his manhood and sucks him dry of his accursed wolfseed . |
| 28 | However , he had a darker side , and his commitment to his work , which often made him oblivious of companions ' feelings , was partly responsible for the failure of his first marriage . |
| 29 | But Karajan 's will was superhuman where music is concerned and he always had in his hand a trump card : a capacity for inner detachment that left him free of bitterness or rancour for all that has been written and said about him over the years . |
| 30 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |