Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 2 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 3 | His right , however , had been transmitted to him through his mother , and it was this transmission through the female , later explained as the inability of a woman to pass on a claim which , as a woman , she could not herself exercise , which worked against Edward 's ambition . |
| 4 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 5 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 6 | Eventually Mr Holdsworth was summoned to attend a Council committee at which he was presented with a list of 26 disciplinary offences , none of which had been raised with him before his suspension . |
| 7 | ’ The committee heard evidence from Stemp and from Worcestershire and were satisfied that he had not knowingly taken amphetamines and that they had been administered to him without his knowledge , approval or authority . |
| 8 | By this time Lewis was off into a fantasy in which a girl Adam had got pregnant had been abandoned by him with their child at Wyvis Hall where she had later been murdered by a sinister caretaker . |
| 9 | Everyone in Rosington seemed to be laughing at him behind his back . |
| 10 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 11 | ‘ Because all the old cats will be sniggering at him behind his back , that 's why . |
| 12 | In a moment we 'll be speaking to him about his son 's plight , but first we go over to Switzerland where our reporter , John Marshall , has been following the story . |
| 13 | Lawrie McMenemy was in Rome and I shall be talking to him about it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He has n't done anyone any favours and I 'll be talking to him about it . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 16 | The Mukhtar is the elected head of the village , and all requests or problems are passed through him to me . |
| 17 | It 's been forced on him by his doctor . |
| 18 | He has few friends , and already the pressure Ipuky and Reni are putting on him through their friends is filtering down to me . |
| 19 | Many , ranging from large estates to small-holdings in towns , were given by him to his French supporters and to those English whom he could tempt over to settle in northern France . |
| 20 | Tears misted her eyes as she stared back at him , wishing she did n't feel so confused , and heard him curse softly , as though the words were torn from him against his will . |
| 21 | Implexion had stood in the mud of the canyon , the pathetic tents being demolished around him by his militia . |
| 22 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 23 | It was Dennis , stopping off for a pee on his way to replenish the supply of social oxygen , already anxious about what the others were saying about him behind his back . |
| 24 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 25 | I knew that you were talking to him about something |
| 26 | As his disciples were identified with him in his ministry and experienced the healing powers of the new age operating through them , so they became partakers of the Kingdom . |
| 27 | Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile . |
| 28 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 30 | Early claims the money is owed to him for his work on the record , the biggest selling rap album of all time , having shifted in excess of 20 million copies . |