Example sentences of "he [coord] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy .
2 It could hardly be healthy for him or for his children .
3 ( 2 ) A person can not steal land , or things forming part of land and severed from it by him or by his directions , except in the following cases , that is to say — ( a ) when he is a trustee or personal representative , or is authorised by power of attorney , or as liquidator of a company , or otherwise , to sell or dispose of land belonging to another , and he appropriates the land or anything forming part of it by dealing with it in breach of the confidence reposed in him ; or ( b ) when he is not in possession of the land and appropriates anything forming part of the land by severing it or causing it to be severed , or after it has been severed ; or ( c ) when , being in possession of the land under a tenancy , he appropriates the whole or part of any fixture or structure let to be used with the land .
4 ‘ To the well-deserving Gaius Seius I leave and wish to be granted in addition that neither from him nor from his heirs should be claimed whatever he owes me on the basis of documents or accounts or has borrowed from me or I have guaranteed for him . ’
5 [ The ] social history of a person with respect to the attitudes of respect and contempt that others have of him and of his understandings of these attitudes .
6 The Crusades , in one view , had been an attempt to restore Christ 's inheritance ( into which he had entered in triumph ) both to him and to his heirs , the Christian community .
7 The jazz coming from the gramophone was irritating him and in his limbs the uneasiness familiar to smokers of opium was beginning to take hold .
8 Whether the consideration or the price that he paid was 1s. 6d. only or 1s. 6d. and three wrappers is a matter not for him but for your Lordships to determine … … .
9 As regards first editions … no author could have left behind such confusion in the classification of his novels as Wallace , although it would be fairer to say that the fault lay not with him but with his publishers .
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