Example sentences of "[noun sg] against him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added that this was on condition that he would withdraw claims for defamation of character made against the IJF if the IJF would agree not to take any legal action against him in the future . |
| 2 | Anonymously , Miliutin launched a campaign against him in The Bell . |
| 3 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 4 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 5 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 6 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 7 | Possibly there was some breakdown of control when he entered London , which may well have contributed to a reaction against him on the part of the citizens . |
| 8 | If the driver claims this right and then fails to provide the specimen duly required under section 7(4) , the sanction for that failure will be the use in evidence against him of the breath specimen which , ex hypothesi , proves an excess of alcohol above the statutory limit and accordingly in such case there will be no need , though it may be theoretically possible , to prosecute for a failure to provide a specimen without reasonable excuse under section 7(6) . |
| 9 | To put this another way , if the customer has a defence to a claim against him under the hire-purchase agreement , then any guarantor will also be able to use the same defence . |
| 10 | Lacking any financial acumen , he ran into difficulties with the Inland Revenue which filed a bankruptcy petition against him for the unpaid tax on his ring earnings : the order was for over £17 000 . |
| 11 | If he won in the members ' section , but still lost the ballot overall , due to heavy voting against him in the union section , he would cause a byelection . |
| 12 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element ( post , pp. 702H — 703A , 705B ) . |
| 13 | In particular , if a foreign element is involved the court will need to be satisfied that , in respect of the relief sought against him , the defendant is sufficiently connected with England for it to be just and proper to make the order against him despite the foreign element . |