Example sentences of "[noun sg] between him [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rumours of a split between him and the company had been rife at its plants yesterday . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's going to be a good contest between him and the Indian batsmen . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is not interested in them sexually , so there is no direct confrontation between him and the newcomer . |
| 10 | So Blade urges punters to fill the gap between him and the bar before he kicks off . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men . |
| 18 | Tony sat it out — in my tent I feel obliged to tell him — listening for the noise of a train , a noise that meant the wind was coming up the defile between him and the sea . |
| 19 | Fowler , who had been a member of the Cabinet since January 1981 [ see p. 30708 ] , stressed that he was leaving for " family reasons " and that there was no disagreement between him and the Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 20 | On or off-screen , there 's no difference between him and the capital 's hip hop homeboys . |
| 21 | That was the only difference between him and the pilots and the mechanics below him . |
| 22 | There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads . |
| 23 | It was as if the Secretary of State were directly running the railways himself , with no chairman or managing director between him and the service . |
| 24 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 25 | Shore talks about his ‘ wood ’ ( guess ) a lot , which is the ma-ay-jor differentiating factor between him and the Bill and Ted/Wayne and Garth axis . |
| 26 | Finally , and perhaps most dangerously , became to believe that his restoration was evidence of some sort of divinely inspired relationship between him and the Iranian people . |
| 27 | When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him . |
| 28 | Surrounded by the others who made a protective wall between him and the rest of the passengers , he stood there brushing himself down . |
| 29 | He turned away from them , and rode onwards to where the Circle began to grow more empty to the north , and soon there was only the long bar of the outer wall between him and the hills . |
| 30 | The mile of shining water between him and the Forest of Dean had been devoid of a single ripple . |