Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] to him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team . |
| 2 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 3 | Another power of the president given to him by the constitution ? |
| 4 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 5 | What he sues for in each case is loss caused to him by the use of an unlawful weapon against him — intimidation of another person by unlawful means . ’ |
| 6 | In Tudor times Henry VIII made a valiant attempt to collect some of the revenue lost to him by the employment of the " use " . |
| 7 | This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment . |
| 8 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 9 | Christian went on to tell the gipsies of the award made to him by the enclosure commissioners , but he was interrupted abruptly by Boz , who said , ‘ There 's no water in Faws Grove . ’ |
| 10 | He is not entitled to withhold the goods until other debts owed to him by the buyer are paid . |
| 11 | Cam endures in a hostile frame of mind a voyage carrying cargo to the Caribbean , resenting the work given to him by the mate , indulging in futile practical jokes against him which are coldly ignored and doing his work with sullen reluctance . |
| 12 | He knew the way vaguely from the journey the night before and the careful directions given to him by the Prior . |
| 13 | In proceedings under Parts IV and V of the Children Act this privilege is waived and no person is excused from giving evidence or answering a question put to him in the course of his evidence on the ground that it will incriminate him or his spouse ( s98(1) ) . |
| 14 | By section 434(5) an answer given by a person to a question put to him by the inspectors may be used in evidence against him . |
| 15 | France , the papacy , Poland and perhaps other states , also honoured Venetian ambassadors in these ways , while in 1603 the doge in Venice knighted a group of seven ambassadors sent to him by the Grisons league in Switzerland , and in 1621 James I did the same for six deputies sent to London by the Dutch republic . |
| 16 | He looked to be peevish , the corners of his full mouth turned down , and an irritable look in his face each time he answered some remark addressed to him by the woman at his side . |
| 17 | Mr Arrica rubbishes this view because he comprehends the essential decency of all things English , a truth revealed to him in the form of a Burberry raincoat bought from George Best 's Manchester boutique circa 1965 . |
| 18 | Immediate Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham with two sleeve-design awards presented to him by the NME in 1969 |
| 19 | In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors . |
| 20 | A brother , Thomas Piper , is known to Burns enthusiasts as ‘ Spunkie Tammie ’ , a name given to him by the poet after the two men met in Maybole in 1786 . |
| 21 | Judge Hand 's refusal to comply with the request addressed to him in the Mexico City case rested on two grounds . |
| 22 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 23 | Martin had happily seen U21 rugby fully established as third in line in the English rugby hierarchy , and he thoroughly deserved the presentation made to him during the Trent College week by the panel to mark the esteem in which he is universally held . |
| 24 | In July , 1989 , the Daily Express reported that ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was funding a Fame-type school on Merseyside through remarks a black friend made to him about the Toxteth riots being mainly caused by police harassment . |
| 25 | The exact date of the Vendôme charter , in which Count Bouchard gave full details of the military service owed to him from the area of Vendôme , is still controversial ; but it is now accepted as an authentic document of the time of Fulk Nerra or Geoffrey Martel . |
| 26 | Reagan gave replies which were videotaped to 159 questions put to him by the lawyers of his former National Security Adviser , Rear Admiral John Poindexter , whose trial was due to open in Washington DC on March 5 . |
| 27 | To lose him would be worse than losing himself : it would be losing the only chance left to him for the life he had always and violently lusted after . |
| 28 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 29 | Erm I think the , the point that 's being made here is that even within the defined areas of authority given to him by the constitution , the president finds it very difficult to act unless certain specific conditions are met . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding these advantages and the expenditure of close to $13m mainly on television advertising , Connally won no primaries and had only one delegate committed to him at the convention . |