Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] him [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opposition crumbled before him and the path he followed was strewn with gold . |
| 2 | Morris was no stranger to the environmental impact of river works , as is shown by a confrontation recorded between him and the Thames Conservancy Board concerning riverside willows which they had felled near Hammersmith . |
| 3 | The seventh prayer in the long version concerns the suffering before Annas , Caiaphas , Pilate and Herod , but more especially the moment when Christ looks at Peter after he has denied him ( Luke 22:55 — 62 ) : The short version , typically , focuses more sharply , concentrating only on the episode with Peter so that there is an identification made between him and the meditator and , by implication , all men who by their natures inevitably betray Christ : The Longleat version of this subject shows by comparison how much less effective than either of the others it is . |
| 4 | And one of these old chaps said , ‘ Bloody hell , he 's had a 50-ton bomb dropped on him and the bugger 's still alive ! ’ |
| 5 | McGrain , capped 62 times by Scotland and a member of the SFA 's Hall of Fame , was unable to use the free ticket given to him and the rest of that elite group for all Scotland 's matches . |
| 6 | At a further conference , however , on 5 April 1990 , the court ruled against him because the original subpoenas , and the government 's motion to quash , were still outstanding . |
| 7 | Peter Kaye , a pensioner of Beechtree Road , Wavertree , has met every poll tax payment demanded of him since the tax was introduced , keeping a careful note of the cheques he issued . |
| 8 | Then he walked deeper into the trees as the twilight thickened around him and the stars began appearing among the branches over his head . |
| 9 | Under s8 of UCTA 1977 , s3 of the Misrepresentation Act 1967 is replaced by the following : 3 — If a contract contains a term which would exclude or restrict ( a ) any liability to which a party to a contract may be subject by reason of any misrepresentation made by him before the contract was made ; or ( b ) any remedy available to another party to the contract by reason of such a misrepresentation , that term shall be of no effect except in so far as it satisfies the requirement of reasonableness as stated in s11(1) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 ; and it is for those claiming that the term satisfies that requirement to show that it does . |
| 10 | However , the tenant should not be subjected to oppressive powers of inspection and he should resist an attempt to make him pay the costs of an inspection , although it would be fair that he should pay the costs if there is a material discrepancy between the information supplied by him and the results of an inspection . |
| 11 | The astonished Briton , who recounts the event in this new autobiography , also recalls how his Nazi host remarked to him after the general had finished spouting : ‘ I 'm sure it 's not necessary to ask you not to pass any information on to the Communists . ’ |
| 12 | Unlike some MPs he has n't let his duties as a minister come between him and the people who elected him . |
| 13 | One of its senior men recorded in a memo that an official of the Northern Ireland office emphasised to him that the Housing Executive had to do everything possible to prevent unemployment because of the political situation . |