Example sentences of "[indef pn] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 2 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 3 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 5 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 6 | Equally , in the words of Lord Wright in Grant v. Australian Knitting Mills ( 1936 P.C. ) ‘ there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter ; a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description . ’ |
| 7 | As Lord Wright said in Grant v Australian Knitting Mills Ltd [ 1936 ] AC 85 : It may also be pointed out that there is a sale by description even though the buyer is buying something displayed before him on the counter : a thing is sold by description , though it is specific , so long as it is sold not merely as the specific thing but as a thing corresponding to a description , eg woollen undergarments , a hot-water bottle , a second-hand reaping machine , to select a few obvious illustrations . |
| 8 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 9 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 10 | I do n't know whether it contributed much — one never knows oneself whether it contributes or nOt — but I never took my eyes off Peter during this scene , willed him to do this , that and the other , and was saddened and grieved and distressed by the fact that everybody turned against him at the end . |
| 11 | If anything happened to him during the mission , Coleman was worried there might be a problem in claiming on life insurance policies taken out in his real name . |