Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] him in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It also goes with the people he moves among , the ‘ circles ’ and ‘ sets ’ of The Possessed , many of whom are travellers too , and with the ‘ quintet ’ which he does n't belong to but is entangled with , which he tries to kick himself clear of , and which dumps him in that pond and leaves his cap behind .
2 Section 83(1) of the Building Societies Act 1986 confers on an individual the right as against a building society to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects , investigated under a scheme recognised by the Building Societies Commission .
3 ‘ ( 1 ) An individual shall , by virtue of and in accordance with schemes under this section , have the right , as against a building society , to have any complaint of his about action taken by the society in relation to a prescribed matter of complaint which affects him in prescribed respects investigated under the scheme .
4 Dr Clark has written of the eigh-teenth-century Englishman : The agency of the State which confronted him in everyday life was not Parliament , reaching out as a machinery of representative democracy … but the Church , quartering the land not into a few hundred constituencies but into ten thousand parishes , impinging on the daily concerns of the great majority , supporting its black-coated intelligentsia , bidding for a monopoly of education , piety and political acceptability .
5 Gunn continues , describing the feelings which thrilled him in that time now past .
6 His tally now stands at 11 , which puts him in third place behind Robert Alner ( 16 ) and Philip Scholfield ( 12 ) in the Daily Telegraph Men 's Championship .
7 Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field .
8 The first is the world economic situation , which hits him in two ways .
9 Lanfranc , who had a practical mind , had foreseen this need when he was still prior of Bec , and had put together a collection of Canon Law , which stood him in good stead as archbishop .
10 None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference .
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