Example sentences of "[vb -s] him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An application is not necessarily unreasonable because it is inconvenient for the addressee of the application or causes him considerable work or may make him vulnerable to future claims , or is addressed to a person who is not an officer or employee of or contractor with the company in administration , but all of these will be among the factors relevant to be taken into consideration ( post , pp. 862H — 863A , 864C ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone calls him little Arsehole . |
| 3 | His wide range of interests keeps him busy day and night . |
| 4 | Third , the floating charge holder will be able to take steps to enforce the charge and , as will be seen , this accords him considerable control over the company 's affairs . |
| 5 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 6 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 7 | Othello 's vision of Iago gives him total credit : With the vision of Iago , Othello also takes over his language , as critics have long noted , with its bestial images , but also his attitudes , especially a generalized distrust of women . |
| 8 | A knowledge of appropriate theory and the techniques of curriculum development gives him certain tools to work with . |
| 9 | Likewise , by efficient data storage the user benefits from having a system that gives him relevant information quickly . |
| 10 | Any movement of the head changes the position of the semi-circular canals in relationship to gravity and so tells the owner which way up he is and gives him general orientation . |
| 11 | It gives him great pleasure to incarnate himself in the shape of man as Christ himself did . |
| 12 | He would later describe the king as " one of the most brilliant statesman I have ever been privileged to meet , with a fantastic memory and a third eye which gives him great sensitivity and extraordinary perception . " |
| 13 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 14 | Jamie Spence : first-round 67 gives him one-stroke lead over David Gilford in Moroccan Open |
| 15 | This allows him to cast his spells and also gives him incredible strength . |
| 16 | Again when Pharaoh makes Joseph vizier of Egypt he gives him special clothes , as does Joseph his brothers to mark his reconciliation with them . |
| 17 | Receiving maintenance payments would perpetuate this link and also gives him unwelcome paternity rights . |
| 18 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 19 | These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre . |
| 20 | The double puts him equal top on 35 winners with Peter Scudamore . |
| 21 | Arriving home , Goneril pronounces herself his mistress , and promises him speedy advancement — which can only mean by the murder of her husband , Albany ( IV.ii.17ff . ) . |
| 22 | He has accepted it in principle , which does him great credit . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman 's attitude to terrorism always does him immense credit . |
| 24 | Trygg Tryggvason does him full honours with both production and engineering . |
| 25 | The Electrophone always does him full justice . |
| 26 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 27 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |