Example sentences of "[adj] to him and the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ( iv ) No creditor can vote at any meeting unless he has lodged with the official receiver not later than the time mentioned for this purpose in the notice convening the meetings a proof of debt , that is , a statement in the appropriate form ( see Chapter 9 ) of the amount claimed by him as due to him and the claim has been admitted for the , purpose of entitlement to vote ( r 6.93(1) ) . |
2 | Howard would surely not have objected to either , although the idea of a department of corrections would have been very strange to him and the idea that it could act as a system to feed and clothe itself would presumably have seemed a desirable but unreal and irrelevant objective . |
3 | Frequently , the scientific understanding needed for the progress he wanted to make was not available to him and the work he began did not bear fruit until after his death . |
4 | With a violence born of desperation , he swung at the bottle nearest to him and the mouth of a bottle of Tavel Rosé landed neatly in the pile of Donald 's chicken , allowing pink liquid to pulse on to the plate . |
5 | This poem deals with Gunn 's feelings as he watches the disease strike down all those close to him and the way it changes his perceptions of life and death . |
6 | Soon after the Shah left Teheran , the Iranian embassy in Washington was taken over by militants and by members of Zahedis staff who had hitherto seemed loyal to him and the Shah . |
7 | All he could take in was the muzzle of the gun the silent terror of the girl next to him and the Woman 's stony face . |