Example sentences of "him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am hearing him loud and clear . |
| 2 | Joan had met Sir James Tyrell — the constable who had replaced Brackenbury — and she had found him pleasant enough when Alianor had presented him to her . |
| 3 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 4 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 5 | Industry bargaining was also preferable to employers in Italy since it allowed their associations to maintain a tight control on bargaining activities whilst at the same time freeing the individual employer from direct impact with the union — yet giving him ample leeway to influence his employees from outside union channels ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 6 | It gave him ample time to check the house . |
| 7 | These Imperial durbars were Inayat Khan 's favourite material , giving him ample occasion to tug his forelock and fill the pages of the Shah Jehan Nama with paeans to the generosity of his Imperial paymaster . |
| 8 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 9 | He took with him strange plants and birds to show the King and Queen . |
| 10 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 11 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 12 | He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep . |
| 13 | She , seeing him asleep , leaves him . ) |
| 14 | The problem was so great , it dragged him asleep . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've seen him asleep and I 've seen him waking up . |
| 16 | " No you were n't , you were fast asleep , and he turned to the young officer and enquired : " Did you see him asleep , Sir ? " |
| 17 | , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally |
| 18 | But to his unfortunate son and daughter ( William Armstrong and Margo Gunn ) he seems to ‘ make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo ’ as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain . |
| 19 | Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain . |
| 20 | He had never used the cane before , only the threat of it , but all three children were well aware that Kim 's flagrant disobedience earlier that evening had caused him acute public embarrassment . |
| 21 | Every moment I am conscious of those little differences which , although appearing minute to the layman , to the dancer constitute the difference between the amateur and that je ne sais quoi which makes him professional . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh — you told him that ! ’ chorused Ethel and Mary . |
| 23 | And Paul himself and Maggie and Fenna , but she would not try to tell him that . |
| 24 | Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness . |
| 25 | I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , but do n't tell him that — not for the moment , anyway . ’ |
| 27 | It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks . |
| 28 | So he brought his tapes with him that night and he loved it . |
| 29 | To this day the world sees him that way . |
| 30 | Edward was eager to see and to understand the precise nature and functioning of female anatomy and physiology ; Helen , with equal insistence on their purity of motive and the intense trust in him that love had given her , was surprised by joy , sustained by daydreams of their future Eden together , and fired by his frank letters with their confessions of his adolescent fight against erections , nocturnal emissions , and occasional masturbation . |