Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] he [conj] the " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps this was why , increasingly , Henry saw life as a struggle between him and the things his wife cared for so passionately — whales , seals , Aborigines , dolphins … |
2 | In one bitter-sweet passage he said : ‘ I wish the Prime Minister well and hope his changes will produce whatever advantage for him and the Government that he intended . ’ |
3 | But in an earlier case , he said , it had been held that the authority of the stewards of the National Greyhound Racing Club to suspend a trainer 's licence was derived solely from a contract between him and the club and that the stewards were purely a domestic tribunal . |
4 | The managing director did not have a written contract of employment or other documentation recording any agreement or contract between him and the company ( p 104 ) . |
5 | ‘ Dr. Roy 's printed case contained detailed arguments in favour of a contract between him and the committee , but before your Lordships Mr. Lightman simply argued that the doctor had a private law right , whether contractual or statutory . |
6 | The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor . |
7 | Rumours of a split between him and the company had been rife at its plants yesterday . |
8 | ‘ It 's going to be a good contest between him and the Indian batsmen . ’ |
9 | But the king 's failure to impose his ecclesiastical policy on Scotland and the tension between him and the English Parliament in 1640 forced the earl to reconsider his position . |
10 | He is not interested in them sexually , so there is no direct confrontation between him and the newcomer . |
11 | So Blade urges punters to fill the gap between him and the bar before he kicks off . |
12 | Johnson exploded off his starting blocks with more than his usual ferocity , and by ten metres there was daylight between him and the remaining seven . |
13 | CHRISTIE has time to raise his arms in triumph as he crosses the line for his 100-metres win — with clear daylight between him and the pack . |
14 | It was expected that she would show sympathy with the white settler minority associated with Ian Smith 's Rhodesia Front and propose a deal between him and the near-puppet government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa . |
15 | ‘ Normally I 'm accused of the reverse , ’ he says dryly , adding that you could not slip a playing card between him and the rest of the shadow Cabinet on policy . |
16 | It appeared to him suddenly that there was a link between her flouted ambition for him and the ethic of a religion more alien to his own thought than he had ever dreamed . |
17 | She knew Jennifer would be hurt at the mention of him and the poor girl had enough problems as it was without adding to them . |
18 | Jack Butler was almost ugly when he was angry ; it was a side of him that the many thousands of women who watched racing only to catch a glimpse of him never saw . |
19 | He was swigging hot chocolate , his tatty carrier bag on one side of him and the tin of biscuits on the other . |
20 | Irish Tom 's voice boomed with mirth and mockery below him as the airborne child flailed the air with his arms and legs . |
21 | The Deputy Head ( Staff ) to draft individual reports to members of the department as a result of their interview with him and the Headmaster . |
22 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
23 | England in 1920 , it testified to a similar recognition by him that the amateur ideal in the arts , however admirable in the abstract , and however rich its achievements under earlier structures of society , under the conditions of mass democracy could mean only amateurishness in technique , and thin-skinned insolence in debate . |
24 | Piggy 's glasses became the only part of him that the boys were glad to have — as they lit the fire . |
25 | But the noise of him and the flapping was good enough sign too . |
26 | More horror of him than the shit of the pit . |
27 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
28 | This was not quite ready when Mozart set off for Munich and so Mozart 's letters to his father , who acted as intermediary between him and the librettist , reveal a great deal of the process of writing . |
29 | Mum sometimes did shopping for him when the weather was bad . |
30 | He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men . |