Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 3 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 4 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 5 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 6 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 7 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 8 | Never heard of him after that did you I mean ? |
| 9 | No more is heard of him after this , although Kympton was acting as agent for the commissioners of the sick and wounded at Plymouth in 1703 . |
| 10 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 11 | The substitute had been on the field for only three minutes when McCoist got his second goal of the evening , made for him by another purposeful run and pass by Jess . |
| 12 | They were first noticed by Poynting and the effect is named after him in this branch of materials science . |
| 13 | But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date . |
| 14 | That is not said by way of criticism , because the case does not appear primarily to have been argued before him on that basis . |
| 15 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 16 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 17 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 18 | When Jean-Claude and I quit Park Terrace we did so with tea-chests packed with valuables of mine , largely selected by him from many more than we could manage to take . |
| 19 | The Secretary of State shall lay before both Houses of Parliament a draft of any code of practice prepared by him under this section . |
| 20 | ( c ) No partner should carry on any business which competes with the firm or from which he derives benefit at the expense of the firm Section 30 of the Partnership Act provides as follows : If a partner , without the consent of the other partners , carries on any business of the same nature as and competing with that of the firm , he must account for and pay over to the firm all profits made by him in that business . |
| 21 | Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident . |
| 22 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 23 | ‘ I had never thought of him like that before . ’ |
| 24 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 25 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 26 | Let me give you one scripture in closing , in two Timothy chapter one and verse twelve , the apostle says , for this reason , he says I suffer these things but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed , and I am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day . |
| 27 | I 'm convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until that day . |
| 28 | On a similar tack , Guttersnipe would be intrigued to discover whether Mr Wahlberg was responsible for any more than 20 per cent of the many sexual peccadilloes attributed to him in this column . |
| 29 | Wasim , though has been reprimanded by Lancashire for comments attributed to him in this book . |
| 30 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |