Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 2 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 3 | It did not follow that , because the architect was under a duty to act fairly in making a valuation for the certificates , he was acting in a judicial capacity and therefore immune from liability to his principal for loss caused to him by a negligent valuation . |
| 4 | As I say , at Darlington Hall too , many a visiting employee would bring the latest tales of Mr Neighbours 's achievements , so that I and the likes of Mr Graham would have to share the frustrating experience of hearing anecdote after anecdote relating to him . |
| 5 | He would allow the existence of different ideological currents , but they must be bound by the common rules of play imposed by him . |
| 6 | Michael closed his eyes , a feeling of euphoria surging through him . |
| 7 | The first , slight sign of tiredness came on him — a moment of dizziness and a thin line of pain from the tension in his shoulders . |
| 8 | ‘ Next was the lobster , ’ said Auguste , waves of tiredness sweeping over him . |
| 9 | A man balancing two flutes of champagne jostled against him and Sabatini glared at him , then at Caroline , and his hand wrapped firmly around her wrist . |
| 10 | A flicker at the window and a faint cackling echo of thunder laughed at him . |
| 11 | He was charged with accroaching royal power and procuring the deaths of the Earl of Lancaster and other nobles , acquiring many lands that belonged to the crown , and disobeying the judgement of banishment pronounced against him in 1321 . |
| 12 | He preferred the shore , where the long vistas of rocks with their thick coverings of seaweed appeared to him as the heads of ‘ black phantoms emerging from the underworld , ’ and the grottos were full of strange brilliantly coloured rocks and polished white beds of gravel which seemed about ‘ to receive the water-nymph when she emerged from the waves ’ . |
| 13 | A lot of them off the field which have got nothing of course to do with him . |
| 14 | When France fell Adair was too ill to flee and Boulestin of course stayed with him . |
| 15 | It was in Mr Dunn 's interests to return the summons with his answers , because if he did not he would never know of judgement made against him in court declaring he owed Mr Rich the sum he claimed . |
| 16 | The fate of Mirabeau , for instance , would have been sealed by the lack of sympathy felt for him by the people , on account of their irritation with the Court 's defence of the old order . |
| 17 | A wave of sympathy swept over him , some of which must have shown on his face , for Connon now smiled at him ironically . |
| 18 | Spring 's actual goods , doubtless including his stock-in-trade , were appraised at precisely £1,800 , a further £1,400 consisting of money owed to him , £800 having been written off as ‘ desperate ’ debts . |
| 19 | John Bluett had received a promissory note from his son , William , the present defendant , in respect of money lent by him to William . |
| 20 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 21 | He ran his eyes over the figures seated at the tables outside the pavement café and a twinge of fear ran through him . |
| 22 | Angie Bowie : ‘ There was a lot of garbage said about him feeling schizoid and it was all so crazy and easy to say that he felt schizoid because of Ziggy Stardust . |
| 23 | 15 ( 1 ) No action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or , if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims , to that person . |
| 24 | Even here , the test of imminence discussed in Moss v. McLachlan suggest that there must be a clear and present danger that the conduct in which he is engaging will give rise to a breach of the peace , and it is demonstrable that the constable has no reasonable alternative course of action open to him other than to ask the speaker to desist , as by , for example , calling for assistance . |
| 25 | The giving of legal advice and assistance in relation to matters arising in England and in foreign countries has been considered by the Central Committee and they take the view that standing the provision in the Act , all a Scottish solicitor is entitled to do is to give the client preliminary advice on his legal position and the course of action open to him . |
| 26 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 27 | But the Hall of Light faded , and the impression of great elegance and immense silence and a drifting unfamiliar scent faded , and he was falling forward and there was some kind of cell waiting for him , and this was surely the end of everything , and this was surely all he could ever expect anywhere in the entire world … |
| 28 | Jesus felt a gentle sense of irony steal over him . |
| 29 | The words to describe these difficult memories of confusion come to him magically — not without effort , not without searching for them , but with the assurance that each word is right , and calls forth its object exactly . |
| 30 | A D Hopeprotested that Patrick White always wrote ‘ the ribbon of tea wound through him ’ instead of ‘ he drank a cup of tea ’ . |