Example sentences of "he [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
| 2 | Eleanor used to say that she inherited her father 's nose and she would one day sue him for damages . |
| 3 | But if the valuer is negligent and you buy the property relying on his report , you may still be able to sue him for damages . |
| 4 | If he unjustifiably rejects them , the seller may sue him for damages for non-acceptance or , possibly , will have an action for the price ( see paragraph 13–05 and Chapter 12 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 6 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 7 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |
| 8 | The disorder that had seemed to him for decades to determine the course of events regrouped itself like a pile of iron filings suddenly organized by a magnet , and he had a flash of optimism when it appeared quite possible that men in the days to come might wish to find out more than concerned them at the moment . |
| 9 | I used to sit and watch him for hours , painstakingly working on a painting , and , following his example , I would push myself harder and harder to make my own drawings better . |
| 10 | Maura and Margaret sat by him for hours . |
| 11 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 12 | His ultimate fantasy was a movie star fellating him for hours and hours . |
| 13 | Now I I remember talking to him for hours once on a programme about education and this was when he first said what we want is teachers to be accountable . |
| 14 | Cadogan says ferried to question this man till he 's dry , question him to death if necessary , but I 've already spoken to him for hours . |
| 15 | ‘ They said that Kabir the weaver was favoured of God , and the crowds flocked round him for medicines and miracles . |
| 16 | It was an understood thing that Mr Joe , Sir , as he was now — and that was hard to take in — was still in shock , for he walked about like someone in a dream and would stand staring in front of him for minutes on end . |
| 17 | Month after month , the director Fritz Saxl sent letters to the senior civil servant at the Office of Works , Frederic Raby , asking him for shelves to be provided . |
| 18 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 19 | They rushed him through to Resus , and got him going again , and while Kathleen put the monitor leads on Jack checked him for injuries and ordered X-rays . |
| 20 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 21 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 22 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 23 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 24 | He would have to brief Karr afterwards on how to escape from this situation , otherwise First Advocate Kung would be calling upon him for favours from here until doomsday , playing upon the Major 's need not to lose face . |
| 25 | Well , I did ask him for tangerines . |
| 26 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 27 | Because of the case , of going to court to claim compensation for James , we had to have neuroligists to come and look at James and assess him for thes claim and they have said that James is not in a persistent vegetative state . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Kristian is very good with fans when they see him the street and ask him for autographs . |
| 29 | It is clear that a payment made by him for goods bought is binding , though payment could not have been enforced against him . |
| 30 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |