Example sentences of "against him [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 2 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 3 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element ( post , pp. 702H — 703A , 705B ) . |
| 4 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element . |
| 5 | To put this another way , if the customer has a defence to a claim against him under the hire-purchase agreement , then any guarantor will also be able to use the same defence . |
| 6 | Blake pleaded guilty to the five charges against him under the Official Secrets Act which referred to him having passed on information since November 1951 . |
| 7 | In his letter of resignation to the Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , Lal claimed that his Cabinet colleagues had organized a " vilification campaign " against him through the national press . |
| 8 | Among several other flaws in Anselm 's election and investiture , there was one which neither Anselm nor anyone else mentioned at the time , but was later to be held against him by the papal legate : on a strict view , his election -in addition to all its other legal defects — had been schismatic , since the king and all the others who took part , with the sole exception of Anselm himself , were schismatics , for they had not recognized Urban II as the legitimate pope although he had now been pope for five years . |
| 9 | Saddam 's means of war are products of modern science and technology , as are those even more lethal systems being unleashed against him by the Western allies . |
| 10 | Mr Engholm admitted that he had lied in 1987 to a committee investigating a dirty-tricks campaign mounted against him by the Christian Democrats . |
| 11 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 12 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 13 | The Gallic chief , Commius , who had been a friend and ally of Caesar , turned against him in the great revolt of Vercingetorix after the Roman invasion of 55 and 54 BC . |
| 14 | If that fails , or if the offender breaks his assurance , the Director can take proceedings against him in the Restrictive Practices Court , which has power to order that the course of conduct be abandoned . |
| 15 | If the immigration authorities concluded that Mr Hussain 's assertion that he was undecided as to his long term intentions was pretended rather than genuine , clearly that would weigh against him in the primary purpose issue . |
| 16 | To read some of the ad hominem propagandizing directed against him in the post-war years , one might imagine Karajan was a great player in this awesome drama . |