Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] him [prep] 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 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 3 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 4 | Last time I met him , he said that words attributed to him in the House had not been words that he had uttered . |
| 5 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 6 | Becky 's dark eyes fixed on him for the first time . |
| 7 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 8 | This person was in fact an undischarged bankrupt who wrote to the plaintiff as being recommended by the editor and who misappropriated the funds sent to him by the plaintiff for investment . |
| 9 | Governments would not be swayed , nor would ministers tremble , on receipt of elegantly crafted and crisply sarcastic Notes written by him on the antique encryption machine which could be seen in a corner of the office , slowly rusting away in the hot , salt air . |
| 10 | He is not entitled to withhold the goods until other debts owed to him by the buyer are paid . |
| 11 | He knew the way vaguely from the journey the night before and the careful directions given to him by the Prior . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | France , the papacy , Poland and perhaps other states , also honoured Venetian ambassadors in these ways , while in 1603 the doge in Venice knighted a group of seven ambassadors sent to him by the Grisons league in Switzerland , and in 1621 James I did the same for six deputies sent to London by the Dutch republic . |
| 14 | He had already acquired some ex-episcopal lands back in 1647–8 , in settlement of earlier debts owing to him on the public faith . |
| 15 | Andrew sat down on the corner of the bed , his aged and baggy trousers flaring about him like the leggings of a geriatric Zouave . |
| 16 | Immediate Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham with two sleeve-design awards presented to him by the NME in 1969 |
| 17 | The forest of the night always made him shiver — the association with nameless terrors peering at him through the jungle of a Rousseau painting on his childhood wall . |
| 18 | His fleshy paunch was hanging over his sweaty jeans with the legs of his trousers clinging to him with the viscosity of four week old socks sticking to the bedroom wall . |
| 19 | These sentiments remained with him until the morning light came shining through the windows . |
| 20 | In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors . |
| 21 | Further ( i ) he may apply for an order for the costs incurred by him before the receipt of the notice of payment into court where the defendant has legal aid or where Ord 11 , r 4(2) ( see below ) applies , or ( ii ) in any other case provided he abandons all other claims , he may lodge a bill of costs for taxation , or have costs assessed and if the costs allowed are not paid within 14 days , he may have judgment entered for them ( Ord 11 , r 3(5) ) . |
| 22 | After receiving notice of discontinuance a party may , unless the court on the application of a plaintiff otherwise orders , lodge for taxation a bill of costs incurred by him before the receipt of the notice , or , if the proceedings are not wholly discontinued , his costs incurred before the receipt of the notice in relation to the part discontinued ( Ord 18 , r 2(1) ) . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Already when my father was still alive and under his instructions , I inventoried his complete collection of drawings , carefully noting down memories aroused in him by the sight of these works dating from his life before 1914 in the company of Modigliani . |
| 26 | A document signed by the bank 's solicitors acknowledged receipt of the sum of £3,000 in full discharge of all claims by the bank against B in connection with the company and all guarantees given by him to the bank in connection with that company and in settlement of any outstanding questions as to the amount due to the bank . |
| 27 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that in the 19th century the courts did consider the adequacy of consideration in restraint of trade cases , but more recently in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Hodson LJ said " … although the position of the employee has to be considered , the court will not inquire into the adequacy of the consideration or weigh the advantages accruing to the covenantor under the contract against the disadvantages imposed on him by the restraint " . |
| 30 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |