Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 To consider the issue in greater detail , the only circumstance under which his omission to treat his patient further could render him guilty of manslaughter is where he has failed to act in a situation where the criminal law imposes on him a duty to act and death has ensued .
2 Only marriage has for him the required social connotations , expressing the kind of personal and social commitment mentioned earlier .
3 The other has about him a ring of nostalgic failure ; in his time everything was good , but it ended in failure both personally ( for Fróthi was killed ) and ideologically ( for Fróda 's son returned to the bad old ways of revenge and hatred , scorning peace-initiatives and even apparently his own desires ) .
4 The most we can claim is that his social situation and his physical deterioration induces in him a condition that approximates the classical clinical picture given of schizophrenia .
5 The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived .
6 Before Peter leaves the ward the doctor explains to him the regime of drugs which are to be prescribed .
7 Sister discusses with him the possibility of getting help from his General Practitioner and also points out to him that there may be support groups in his locality for people who wish to give up smoking or classes to learn relaxation techniques which may be helpful .
8 This reversion to Peronism represents to him the contradiction that runs through Argentina .
9 But the lute remains for him the most satisfying instrument to make : shaping the huge bowl-shaped backs is ‘ kinda wondrous ’ .
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