Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 2 | Mrs Beamson 's eight-year-old son has been diagnosed as suffering from severe dyslexia and she claims the county 's education policy will not make adequate provision for him at secondary school level . |
| 3 | Yanto felt a surge of cold anger course through him at this blatant piece of exhibitionism . |
| 4 | He discovered from his eunuchs what Roshanara had been up to , and , despite her support for him over many years , he disgraced her . |
| 5 | Take this one , for example ; walking along the canal towpath at this late hour of the night , as if it was the park on a pleasant Sunday afternoon and life held no dangers for him at all . |
| 6 | This boy is clearly highly disturbed and there are dangers for him in either of the options which were open to the justices to make the order or to refuse it . |
| 7 | It had n't been an easy decision for him in any regard . |
| 8 | The pressure from London , however , was unrelenting : ‘ Gould has been so clamorous lately ’ , Lear wrote to Jardine , ‘ at my not having done any Birds of Europe for him , that I must do a batch for him without further delay . ’ |
| 9 | She could make up her own mind about him without any help from hard-faced blondes , thank you . |
| 10 | Robert took in the neatly combed hair , the frail shoulders , the exquisite cheekbones with the red blemish on one side , and the huge , sightless eyes that roamed the blackness below him like inverted searchlights , as if to soak up the shadows . |
| 11 | The assignee of a lease fell into arrears with the rent and the landlords brought an action against him in 1941 . |
| 12 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 13 | Soon after all this was agreed , he went to see Eden to have a talk with him about new appointments , and because Eden wanted to know him better . |
| 14 | There 's no harm in him at all . ’ |
| 15 | It took Caillié eleven years of meticulous planning and a further year to reach the fabled city in 1828 , which turned out to be rather a disappointment to him after such a hazardous journey . |
| 16 | It requires the court to have regard in particular to : ( a ) the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child concerned ( considered in the light of his age and understanding ) ; ( b ) his physical , emotional and educational needs ; ( c ) the likely effect on him of any change in his circumstances ; ( d ) his age , sex , background and any characteristics of his which the court considers relevant ; ( e ) any harm which he has suffered or is at risk of suffering ; ( f ) how capable each of his parents , and any other person in relation to whom the court considers the question to be relevant , is of meeting his needs ; and ( g ) the range of powers available to the court . |
| 17 | These are : ( i ) the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child concerned ( considered in the light of his age and understanding ) ; ( ii ) his physical , emotional and educational needs ; ( iii ) the likely effect on him of any change in his circumstances ; ( iv ) his age , sex , background and any characteristics of his which the court considers relevant ; ( v ) any harm which he has suffered or is at risk of suffering ; ( vi ) how capable each of his parents , and any other person in relation to whom the court considers the question to be relevant , is of meeting his needs ; ( vii ) the range of powers available to the court under the Act . |
| 18 | Ludo swung his club at him with all that strength he hardly knows he possesses . |
| 19 | She hurled the words at him with such violence that she paused in order to catch her breath . |
| 20 | In its place , as he at last began to carefully , cautiously move inside her , came waves of wondrous , heart-stopping pleasure , so that in the final seconds before some internal eruption emptied her brain and dizzied her senses , she gouged her nails unthinkingly into his back , and wrapped her legs around him in unthinking , mindless surrender … |
| 21 | In important respects , however , his longing was a self-deception , a poetically fruitful means of expressing that sense of loneliness and isolation which had been as much a part of him in Ottery as in London . |
| 22 | I can detect nothing in the evidence , even on the debtor 's version , to suggest that Marshalls misled or took advantage of him in any way . |
| 23 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't like the look of him at all , ’ said Angalo . |
| 25 | Livingstone , a 34-year-old PE teacher said : ‘ Kevin and I broke away from another four runners around the halfway mark and I got the measure of him with 200 metres remaining he did n't seem to have anything left . |
| 26 | My uncle managed to find work for him on one of the nearby farms and the family moved in with him . |
| 27 | He knew the Professor had arranged matters for him in this way , and was grateful . |
| 28 | Frank Sinatra , previous holder of the golden oldie crown , was a mere stripling of 71 when New York New York was a hit for him in 1986 . |
| 29 | You said you wanted to get hold of him for another |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll get hold of him with this . ’ |