Example sentences of "to him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) An objection shall , for the purposes of paragraph ( ii ) of subsection ( 2 ) above , be intimated to the applicant ( a ) by delivering to him a copy of the notice of objection lodged with the licensing board under paragraph ( a ) of that subsection ; or ( ii ) by sending a copy of the said notice by registered post or by recorded delivery in a letter addressed to him at his proper address ; or ( c ) by leaving a copy of the said notice for him at his proper address ; and , for the purposes of paragraphs ( ii ) and ( c ) of this subsection , the proper address in the case of an applicant being an individual natural person shall be his place of abode as specified in his application or , in the case of such an applicant applying for the renewal of a licence , the premises in respect of which the application is made , and , in the case of an applicant other than an individual natural person , shall be the address specified in the application . |
| 2 | and I am sure that members would want to join me in extending warmest congratulations to him on his well-deserved award . |
| 3 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 4 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 5 | Payments to him for his sick daughter Mary are included first in what are known as ‘ Church Extras ’ , then in the main list of relief to paupers . |
| 6 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 7 | He termintade that counselling , butr we are willing to talk to him through his partish priest or bishop . |
| 8 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 9 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 10 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 11 | The Clarion 's offices were small and dingy , but despite this , and the fact that it only appeared once a week , the magazine had a large and growing circulation because of the crusading character of its editor , J. D. O'Connor , who had been a leading journalist with the Morning Post before he had struck out on his own , financed by money left to him by his land-owning father . |
| 12 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 13 | Scouse would give you time and date according to information supplied to him by his previous customers . |
| 14 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 15 | But having viewed the past in romantic terms through the eyes of their hero , the authors bid farewell to him in his retrospective old age as the husband of the refound , finally-won love . |
| 16 | ( d ) This is the same ground as that which entitles a sheriff to allow an appeal made to him in his administrative capacity . |
| 17 | She hugged Nicholas in her arms and rocked him backwards and forwards in the basket-backed rocking chair , in the damp Islington basement , night after night , morning after morning , holding on to him in his little cream Viyella nightdress and blue sleeping bag . |
| 18 | The Agreement shall not apply to any claim brought against an occupier of land if the mud is deposited either by vehicles other than his own , or jointly by such vehicles and his own vehicles , and his Insurers grant indemnity to him in his particular capacity as an occupier of land and not as the user of the vehicles . |
| 19 | Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years . |
| 20 | From the first night he had met her , when she had stood up to him in his own house , he had been attracted to her . |
| 21 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 22 | In joining John Dickinson at Croxley Mills in 1931 , Grant became one of the first qualified scientists to be employed by the paper industry and his contributions and experience proved invaluable to him throughout his subsequent career . |