Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 2 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 3 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 4 | On 20 December Pope Clement V was persuaded to issue a Bull , declaring that the concessions Edward had made had been unjustly extorted from him by force , were incompatible with his coronation oath to defend the honour and rights of the Crown , and were therefore null and void . |
| 5 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 6 | The variations of skeletal representation found by Wolff ( 1973 ) are also attributed by him to hydrodynamic sorting as a result of water transport . |
| 7 | All this had been carefully explained to him by Bewdsley , who had been sent to find him . |
| 8 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 9 | Trevelyan at the Treasury insisted that every scheme should be properly surveyed and costed , and be personally authorized by him in London , before work began . |
| 10 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 11 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 12 | For him it held a special appeal ; the one day of the week he could break bread with his family and not have to feel that they were only loaned to him for the while — his son Joshua had no business to go to , his grandson Jacob no college lectures . |
| 13 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 14 | And the Oldham boo-boys were still screaming for him to be substituted when he headed an injury-time winner . |
| 15 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 16 | The methods used by Walpole to derive the above bounds were later applied by him to the case of transversely isotropic inclusions in a homogeneous matrix . |
| 17 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 18 | He was often directed to see to the ploughing , tilling and sowing of assarts , waste and other lands belonging to the king in the forest , and cattle were sometimes sent to him to be fattened on the forest pastures . |
| 19 | Some were closely linked to him through the goods and provisions which they supplied to the royal household . |
| 20 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 21 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 22 | Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest . |
| 23 | In 1326 he advised the king against an attempt to divorce his wife and was especially commended by him to Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v . ] . |
| 24 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 25 | Grandson was with Edward I during his visit to France and Aquitaine in 1286–9 , and was constantly employed by him in business at the courts of France and Aragon during those years . |
| 26 | So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes . |
| 27 | Anwar had reclaimed Changez and was patiently explaining to him about the shop , the wholesaler and the financial position . |
| 28 | Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ? |
| 29 | The boy was still looking round him as if he expected someone to come . |
| 30 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |