Example sentences of "[prep] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm Froggy 's only relation , and I reckon I deserve the money after looking after him every winter for years . |
| 2 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 3 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 4 | Opposite him a woman leaned out of the window of her own apartment and shouted at him . |
| 5 | Opposite him a display showed Gene Kelly , Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers all dancing together , watched by a group of admiring figures . |
| 6 | Jess edged towards him a fraction , sniffing ; wanting to find out what her nose would tell her . |
| 7 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 8 | Far below him the river was a silver thread , curling and twining through meadows freshly green in sunlight ; and beyond it the folded hillocks rose plumed with clumps of trees , heaving and falling in a series of green bowls all along the flank of the dimpled ridge that soared to the dark green of woodland above . |
| 9 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 10 | When Dorothy , a former nurse , claimed , ‘ We 're crazy about each other , I think of him every waking moment , ’ you believed every word . |
| 11 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 12 | Ahead of him a rivulet trickled towards the river . |
| 13 | One of Isambard 's advance party , and by the cut of him a man of importance . |
| 14 | A yard in front of him a door opened smartly and two women emerged ; both made for the car . |
| 15 | Yeltsin presented Gorbachev with a fait accompli at the RSFSR Supreme Soviet , when on Aug. 23 he signed in front of him a decree suspending the activity of the Russian Communist Party ( RCP ) , " pending the investigation by juridical bodies of its involvement in all these events " . |
| 16 | I think of him a lot , you know . |
| 17 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 18 | On either side of him the warders looked down onto the other landings , watching for any signs of unrest amongst those below . |
| 19 | Earlier in the story Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw ahead of him the place where he thought he would kill his son . |
| 20 | In front of him the page blurred . |
| 21 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |
| 22 | Make sure that he has in front of him the names of new members of the committee , so that he can welcome them . |
| 23 | At the sight of him the stranger started to fumble urgently with his money pouch . |
| 24 | Beneath him a bamboo pipe extended towards a bowl of Ming porcelain into which his body fluids drained . |
| 25 | Beneath him the woman 's face was pale and passive , her arms bent above her head , her rich hair spilling over the pillow . |
| 26 | Captain R.K. Montgomery RE — an old friend of Bill Pritchard and like him a coordinator of demolition squads in the raid — moved them further away . |
| 27 | She says ; people like him a lot . |
| 28 | I said that 's bo , that 's bothered me about that bleeding , I like him a lot . |
| 29 | Being near him every day was her only hope of winning him back . |
| 30 | Example 3:1 Limitation on liability of original tenant ( 1 ) in this clause " the original tenant " means the said … only and this clause applies to any period after the term hereby granted ceases to be vested in the original tenant ( 2 ) if and so often as the tenant fails to pay the rent or any other sum properly due under this lease or commits any breach of covenant known to the landlord then the landlord shall forthwith notify the original tenant of that fact ( 3 ) the landlord shall not be entitled to recover from the original tenant any arrears of rent or other sums payable under this lease where the rent or other sums claimed became due earlier than three months before the original tenant was notified under sub-clause ( 2 ) above ( 4 ) the original tenant shall not be liable for any arrears of rent or other sum falling due after the date upon which this lease is expressed to expire or any breach of covenant committed after that date Example 3:2 Limitation on liability of tenant ( 1 ) In this clause ( a ) " the original tenant " means only ( b ) " the original assignee " means a person to whom the original tenant lawfully assigns this lease ( 2 ) upon a lawful assignment of this lease by the original tenant the original tenant ( a ) shall be released from further personal liability for any breach of any of the tenant 's obligations under this lease occurring after the date of the assignment but ( b ) shall guarantee performance by the original assignee of those obligations until the expiry or other determination of the term or ( if sooner ) a lawful assignment of this lease by the original assignee Example 3:3 Restriction on landlord 's ability to sue original tenant at any time after the lawful assignment of this lease by [ name of original tenant ] the landlord shall not be entitled to enforce against him the tenant 's obligations under this lease unless the landlord shall have first ( 1 ) recovered judgment against all other persons against whom the landlord is or has become entitled to enforce those obligations either as principal or surety and ( 2 ) attempted to levy excution upon such judgment and upon payment by [ name of original tenant ] of any sum due under such judgment the landlord shall assign to him the benefit of it Example 3:4 Definition clause making tenant liable for rent during holding over period " the term " includes not only the term expressed to be granted by this lease but also any period after the date on which the term is expressed to expire during which the tenancy continues under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 Example 3:5 Clause making the tenant liable to pay rent and interim rent promptly to pay the rent reserved by this lease without any deduction or set-off and any rent substituted for it either as a result of a rent review under this lease or the agreement or determination of a rent payable by virtue of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 , s24A |