Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that instead of trying to recover the often indeterminable illocutionary force intended by the author for this or that character , the actor finds himself inventing someone who might have wished to express this or that speech act by means of the speeches assigned to him in the text . |
| 2 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 3 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) In any proceedings to which this section applies the court by which the proceedings were so decided may , subject to subsections ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) below , make an order for the payment by the Board to the unassisted party of the whole or any part of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings . |
| 5 | But I am content to rest my conclusion in rejecting it on the simple ground , which closely reflects the reasoning I have already deployed in rejecting the board 's construction of section 18 , that the words in subsection ( 2 ) ‘ an order for payment … to the unassisted party … of the costs incurred by him in the proceedings ’ can only apply to costs incurred by the unassisted party in his capacity as such . |
| 6 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
| 7 | Any horrors waiting for him in the future were compensated by this moment in time . |
| 8 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 9 | The general assumption of Gratian and his collaborators ( ironically they may well have been monks working with him in the Camaldolese monastery in Bologna and not the new secular law clerks of the future ) was that the contradictions in the early canon law were only superficial or apparent . |
| 10 | Moved by the decorations of the chapel at Westminster and the array of victorious , distinguished officers allied with him in the Order of the Bath , Lord Hornblower is true to his distrustful self . |
| 11 | He met Fanny Blandy , who is said to have been the only person to understand what he was talking about , and she used flags to signal to him in the harbour from the family Quinta da Santa Luzia . |
| 12 | A congressman 's support for the president on a particular issue may not represent a straightforward quid pro quo ; it could well be a mark of his gratitude for favours bestowed upon him in the past . |
| 13 | Duke Michael could have friends to stay with him in the new castle , but he could go into the old castle when he wanted to be alone . |
| 14 | In this way , the organisation does its best to ensure that the employee is likely to be able to meet the requirements expected of him in the job abroad . |
| 15 | Lepine was knocked unconscious by the impact and a few seconds later his head was hacked from his shoulders by a flurry of coupe-coupe blows rained on him in the driving seat by the surviving coolies . |
| 16 | More seriously , Judge Argyle was severely reprimanded by Lord Havers ‘ for a number of unfortunate remarks made by him in the course of a speech at Trent Polytechnic , Nottingham , on Friday , March 13 , 1987 ’ . |
| 17 | In May 1269 Queen Eleanor , Edward and Edmund the king 's sons , and Guy de Lusignan , the king 's half-brother , persuaded Henry III to appoint his nephew Henry of Almain to be constable of Rockingham castle and warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford bridges , as a return for expenses incurred by him in the king 's service , and for debts owed by the king to him . |