Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gathered loosely around him on the roadside verge , the two youngsters and the three truckers had been joined by Rocky and Larsen . |
| 2 | The tradition was carried on after him by his son , Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823–86 ) , and Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 — 1921 ) . |
| 3 | Section 44(1) provides that an ‘ appointed representative ’ is to be an exempted person in respect of business carried on by him as such a representative . |
| 4 | ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 . |
| 5 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |
| 6 | And the committee could have come down on him like a ton of bricks . |
| 7 | William of Malmesbury is our source for the tale of the witch of Berkeley who served the Devil as a sorceress and who was carried off by him from her tomb in spite of the efforts of her family and the priest . |
| 8 | He could have stood the writing as long as she had looked up to him for guidance like one of his young workshop pupils . |
| 9 | But Morse was consulting the Paddington-Oxford timetable which Lewis had picked up for him from Reception , and was nodding to himself as he noted that the 13.30 arrived at Oxford 14.57 , just as Kemp had claimed . |
| 10 | You went to find him — did n't you ? — for his creditors have caught up with him at last . |
| 11 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 12 | ‘ I see they 've caught up with him in Huddersfield , ’ Ma said , ‘ that prisoner . ’ |
| 13 | The Old Reaper would have caught up with him in weeks , probably , months at most . |
| 14 | And after last night 's performance of Hamlet , some of his friends from the theatre had come back with him for an informal reading of their next play . |
| 15 | All that he had to give her with his mind and body was sucked out of him into her . |
| 16 | In preparation for the final session , I designated a ‘ robot controller ’ room area , roped off , a large placard with ROBOT CONTROLLER in red ( I should have added PRIVATE , DO NOT ENTER as a nice re-inforcer of the point , but I did not think about it in time ) against a dais on which stood a table and a hand microphone ( a television control device which he had carried around with him on previous occasions ) . |
| 17 | The feathers floated away from him on the light breeze , catching at the grey budding branches of the tree beneath him , drifting down to where the few Men and People who were there looked helplessly up . |
| 18 | Anyway , so I , I was getting a bit worried about it , and , I can , cos I was having these headaches , and I started talking to Phil and I , I had n't really said much to him about it . |
| 19 | Now he was back in his hovel and naked , lying next to a girl who was having a baby and had moved in with him on that account . |
| 20 | I certainly hope you manage to trace him , Captain , or at least bring those who have made away with him to account . ’ |
| 21 | The ravine widened and opened upon the sly , the curtain-wall with its vast bulk of darkness curved away from him to the right , and left him . |
| 22 | Again , it is said pejoratively of him in his native land that , where Morris is the kind of natural breaker who ties in an enemy back row , Jones ‘ breaks at 3:20pm ’ . |
| 23 | Mr Pollard 's girlfriend Zoe Mitchell had met up with him at the pub . |
| 24 | Boomer was a handsome man with a great deal of charm and became the favourite professional of the rich who visited Paris , playing with such luminaries as Sir Philip Sassoon , who rewarded Boomer by having suits made up for him from Savile Row . |
| 25 | Her thighs were well spread , her back arched , and her backside was thrust out towards him like some amorous baboon . |
| 26 | What decisions , made arbitrarily and in anger , would be handed down to him in the morning ? |
| 27 | Mr Douglas , who retired as vicar of Kilburn in 1988 and now lives in St. Giles ' Close , Thirsk , has a leather-bound copy of the Apologia for , dating back nearly 300 years , which was handed down to him by his mother . |
| 28 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |
| 29 | Instead he demanded that at least part of his inheritance should be handed over to him at once : either England or Normandy or Anjou . |
| 30 | The rogue called on the plaintiff next day and the watch and the ring were handed over to him in exchange for a building society cheque for the agreed amount . |