Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems to be established , and rightly so , that the criterion is not geographical — privilege does not attach to letters sent by constituents to a member , even though they are posted to him in the post office in the Lobby of the House of Commons ( Rivlin v Bilainkin [ 1953 ] 1 QB 485 ) . |
| 2 | And because this technique will have been explained to him during the early part of the consultation , he will find it quite simple to do . |
| 3 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 4 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 5 | From his jacket pocket Robert took out a grubby sheet of paper — the translation of the mysterious manuscript that had been given to him in the pub nearly a year ago today . |
| 6 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 7 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 8 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 9 | He referred to the Bible that had been presented to him by the people of Memel St on July 10 at the opening of their march . |
| 10 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 11 | He had all their attention now , every eye was wide and bright upon him , Herluin and Robert irresistibly moved to hoping against hope , but very wary of disappointment , Nicol interested but bewildered , for nothing had been said to him of the loss of Saint Winifred 's reliquary , or the possibility that he might have had it aboard his wagon , and had been robbed of it with all the rest . |
| 12 | Tranchant , who had been co-owner with Tapie of an electronics firm , Nippon Audio Video System , alleged that Tapie had fraudulantly kept him ignorant of a payment of F13,000,000 which had been made to him by the Japanese company Toshiba when Toshiba bought the company in 1985 . |
| 13 | On top of that , nine county court judgments and a High Court judgment have been made against him in the past two years , including £6,227 , still unpaid , owed to the Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 14 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 15 | Among the cardinals , Hugolinus , one of Innocent 's closest confidants and later Pope Gregory IX , is now generally agreed to have been related to him in the third degree . |
| 16 | On that occasion he had a special reason — though an odd one — for his refusal : he was fully occupied with the duty of defence which had been entrusted to him by the king . |
| 17 | As Denton has shown , Winchelsey had used Clericis Laicos tactically to keep the king at bay while evading the full implications of that bull — that the pope alone could give consent ; Edward spent the last years of his reign dexterously reversing this and nullifying the commitments which appeared to have been extracted from him by the Confirmation of the Charters in 1297 . |
| 18 | Before the Appellate Committee Mr. Newman however relied on certain additional points which had apparently been raised by him before the Divisional Court , but which the court did not in the circumstances find it necessary to consider in its judgment . |
| 19 | At any time after adjudication a bankrupt may apply to the court for his discharge , which , if granted , will enable him to start again , stripped of his property , but ( with certain exceptions ) free from any claim which might have been proved against him in the bankruptcy . |
| 20 | ( This has been recovered by him in the price to the retailer of £690 . ) |
| 21 | Pinkie laughed , spraying a little of the brandy which had been brought to him onto the laden air . |
| 22 | ENO , I am glad to say , is proud to be dismissed by him to the purgatory reserved for this despicable activity , and more than 450,000 people pass through our doors each year to prove it . |
| 23 | The deaths of casuals or sudden or accidental deaths occurring among the inmates had to be reported by him to the Minister within twenty-four hours , and he had ‘ forthwith ’ to inform the master of every case of serious or dangerous illness in the institution . |
| 24 | Some matters , such as boundaries , will need to be resolved by him with the vendor 's solicitors . |
| 25 | ‘ All moneys received by the receiver shall be applied by him in the following order of priority ; ( 1 ) In satisfaction of all costs charges and expenses of and incidental to the appointment of the receiver and the exercise of any of his powers and all outgoings paid by him and his remuneration . |
| 26 | Requests for further information about the programme should be made to him at the address given at the end of this section . |
| 27 | The speaker was short and stocky and that was all that could be said of him in the way of description . |
| 28 | In spite of the weaknesses in his attempted synthesis , the same can be said of him in the context of the theology of the last century and a half as of Sir Christopher Wren on his tomb in St Paul 's Cathedral , Si monumentum requiris , circumspice — ‘ If you would see his memorial , look around you . ’ |
| 29 | Better than some , in fact , since he had once had West Riding connections and , as young political agitators went , possessed a relatively unblemished reputation , with not so much as a single term of imprisonment , as yet , to be used against him at the hustings . |
| 30 | The toy , the squeaky duck or whatever , will be offered to him by the smiling child . |