Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] him [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 2 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |
| 3 | In an exchange of views in the weekly popular magazine Ogonek in November and December Kharchev accused officials from the CPSU and the State Security Committee ( Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti--KGB ) and Orthodox Church leaders of punishing him for his liberal stance on Soviet religious observance , and particularly on the status of the Uniate Church [ see below ] . |
| 4 | I thought it probable the police were right , he had sought revenge against Imogen Surkov for separating him from his nice third wife , Vera , and their son . |
| 5 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
| 6 | What his countrymen did not deserve was being prevented from ousting him after his second term of office . |
| 7 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |
| 8 | A SMART sales rep persuaded a thief to return her stolen car by calling him on her mobile phone . |
| 9 | She also wondered if she had put him off by telling him of her previous engagement and how wary of love it had left her . |