Example sentences of "[adj] to him [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 His exact instructions would be fed direct to him through the disc-jockey on Voice of America .
2 Ramsey was very rude to him in the debate .
3 The position of Battalion Entertainments Officer was no longer held by Charles within five minutes of the drop of the curtain and although that was gratifying to him at the time , in spite of the manner of his dismissal , there were additional deprivations inflicted by a scandalized CO , that were not easy to bear .
4 Any reasonable expenses incurred by the person who gave notice have to be made good to him by the company and recouped by the company out of any fees or other emoluments of the directors in default .
5 The suggestion made there is that it is only equitable that the jurisdiction can not be exercised against a creditor unless the same conditions are applicable to him at the time he receives the payment as are applicable to jurisdiction over the debtor .
6 However , normally one contact man from each of the units is transferred to the staff of the project manager and is responsible to him for the work that is done in his unit .
7 She had been rather grateful to him at the time .
8 She was terribly grateful to him at the moment and it would n't require any effort on his part .
9 He was particularly grateful to him for the ‘ extraordinary kindness ’ he had shown his wife , Bowyer 's niece Blanche Highgate , near whom he was buried in St Dunstan in the West .
10 But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner .
11 Is my right hon. Friend aware that I am extremely grateful to him for the wise decision to retain the St.
12 I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight .
13 the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and
14 In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance .
15 Save for one matter , to which I shall refer later , there is no criticism of the judgment or of the order the judge made on the material that was available to him at the time .
16 It may also recognise that the husband should be entitled to a financial stake in the matrimonial home , such stake being made available to him at the end of the period specified in the court order or at a time previously agreed between the parties .
17 This refers to disorder on a widespread scale , and the officer should take into account not merely his own resources , but those that can be made available to him through the use of the mutual aid provisions of the Police Act 1964 .
18 The hon. Gentleman must use the time available to him in the normal way to debate that matter .
19 ‘ If , therefore , for any unhappy reason , counsel for the defence is unable to accept the assumption which stems from the fact that a particular statement has not been made available to him by the prosecution , it would become counsel 's duty to invite the judge to exercise the discretionary power which is given to him by the proviso to section 18 of the Evidence Law , ( c. 118 [ J. ] ) , by examining the statement himself and directing that it be used in such manner as the justice of the case demands .
20 The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost .
21 He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names .
22 Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own .
23 There can be little doubt that John Howard , rising from his grave , would find much more that is familiar to him within the prison than across society as a whole .
24 ‘ Why did you get engaged to him in the first place ? ’ he questioned softly .
25 Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there .
26 They are quite kind to him in the asylum but of course a strait-jacket ca n't be that comfortable .
27 But she was going to have to keep the door open to him for the next twenty years and , like it or not , it was something that she would have to come to terms with .
28 Such alternative approaches were open to him at the material time . ’
29 His Lordship could not say the Home Secretary 's decision was not one which was fully open to him in the exercise of his judgment .
30 There was still the rupee for his food , and another rupee given to him for the train journey back .
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