Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former Scottish international Rodger , who won the men 's singles last year in the Middlesbrough Borough Councilsupported event , has a particular strong field competing against him for his title . |
| 2 | As a result , Mr Vafa , who was living in France at the time , says that allegations of violence made against him by his former wife and her family went unchallenged and resulted in the interdict preventing him from molesting and attacking his wife or members of her family . |
| 3 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 4 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |
| 5 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 6 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 7 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 8 | There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder . |
| 9 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 10 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 11 | Wipo , the biographer of the emperor Conrad II of Germany , says that he burst into tears after hearing a sermon delivered to him at his coronation in 1024 . |
| 12 | At the time of his ascension , how does Jesus respond to the question put to him by his disciples , ‘ Lord , will you at this time give the Kingdom back to Israel ? ’ |
| 13 | He had removed the jacket of his white linen suit but the sense of decorum bred into him by his aristocratic Virginian upbringing compelled him to retain its matching vest and a cravat of maroon silk held in place with a small diamond pin . |
| 14 | Now that the prior was assured of retaining his saint , together with all the lustre accruing to him as her discoverer and translator , he wanted everything tidied up and ended , and these troublesome visitors from Ramsey off his premises , before they contrived some further mischief . |
| 15 | He completed his studies and married a girl chosen for him by his parents . |
| 16 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 17 | Yet it has to be acknowledged that his glimpses of absolute Truth came to him through his understanding of , and his faith in , the specific content or the essential teaching of his own religious tradition despite its imperfections . |
| 18 | Also included is an inkstand presented to him on his wedding by the Prince and Princess of Wales est. £3–5,000 ( $5–8,500 ) . |
| 19 | The Prophet , having missed his first killing strike , realised he would have to move fast to avoid capture by the trap set for him by his hated enemy . |
| 20 | Mr. Beck was a formidably powerful personality and doubtless would have passed any examination set for him in his profession — indeed , he did so . |
| 21 | But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally . |
| 22 | Later , in 1855 , he was to name a thirteenth Tasmanian species , the scrub tit or Acanthomis magna , from a specimen sent to him by his friend Ronald Gunn . |
| 23 | At the Hodge Holes it was " baggin time " ( a Northern word for lunch break ) and this was very fitting because Bill , who is a pedigree Bitzer ( bits'er this , bits'er that ) , rejoices in the name of Bilbo Baggins , a name given to him by my daughters on the day he was bought from the dogs ' home . |
| 24 | But this week I went along to ‘ the other Headingley ’ where he plies his trade week-in , week-out to talk to him about his hopes and ambitions and how he saw the season panning out for his big-spending club . |
| 25 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 26 | She raised her head to look at him between her bare knees . |
| 27 | The Daily Mirror apologises to Mr O'Connor and regrets any embarrassment or inconvenience caused to him by our original report . |
| 28 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 29 | The matter was discussed in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 where it was said : It is clear from the authorities that the plaintiffs were not entitled to impose a restriction which would prevent the defendant from using in competition with the plaintiffs the skill and aptitude and general technical knowledge acquired by him in his employment by the plaintiffs . |
| 30 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |