Example sentences of "him [prep] [noun] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to exercise this authority , however , it was first necessary to settle the dispute with York , and it was on his handling of this issue that Anselm 's reputation with the monks of Canterbury chiefly depended : they later compared him with Lanfranc to his disadvantage . |
| 2 | There is a chapter which discusses the letters from Germans — ‘ good Germans ’ in the main — which were sent to him in response to his book about the camps . |
| 3 | … Then it is suggested that , although an individual can sue for a libel upon him in relation to his business , or even the members of a partnership may maintain a joint action for such a libel , yet that an incorporated company can not . |
| 4 | It certainly has no basis in the figures that I have just given him in answer to his question . |
| 5 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 6 | This enables a student to optimise the opportunities presented to him without prejudice to his progression through the examination system . |