Example sentences of "between him and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler , who had been a member of the Cabinet since January 1981 [ see p. 30708 ] , stressed that he was leaving for " family reasons " and that there was no disagreement between him and the Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 2 | Between him and the famous pathologist now arriving , there was no love lost . |
| 3 | Finally , and perhaps most dangerously , became to believe that his restoration was evidence of some sort of divinely inspired relationship between him and the Iranian people . |
| 4 | Dougal desperately wanted to run away ; but Lorton was between him and the front door . |
| 5 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 6 | A bus was passing between him and the parked vehicle , and he hesitated … |
| 7 | Mabbott 's reputation as a Leveller , which rests solely on the association which has been made between him and the radical newsbook , the Moderate , has been called into question . |
| 8 | He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men . |
| 9 | penetrate the chilling force-field that lay between him and the two men . |
| 10 | That , police said later , was just one of many differences between him and the super-rich daredevil namesake . |
| 11 | Johnson exploded off his starting blocks with more than his usual ferocity , and by ten metres there was daylight between him and the remaining seven . |
| 12 | This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull . |
| 13 | The victims are people who stand between him and the desired goal , usually some form of power , and who must be set aside , disbarred , or killed . |
| 14 | The king 's chivalric reputation attracted men to his service from all over Europe in the 1340s , and it greatly strengthened the bonds between him and the English nobility . |
| 15 | But the king 's failure to impose his ecclesiastical policy on Scotland and the tension between him and the English Parliament in 1640 forced the earl to reconsider his position . |
| 16 | His doubted claims to have been the greatest mountaineer of his generation have foundation in fact , despite the hostility which existed between him and the English Alpine Club . |
| 17 | Between him and the returning officer the STV opens an unbridgeable gulf . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's going to be a good contest between him and the Indian batsmen . ’ |
| 19 | Swindon and , by extension , the Jefferies country around Coate won a permanent place in Thomas 's life because of the indissoluble friendship that developed between him and the old man called ‘ Dad ’ Uzzell . |
| 20 | William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible . |
| 21 | As I lay back on my bed I tried to work out the connection between him and the British Empire and Fresnes gaol , but could make nothing of it . |
| 22 | The prosecution , relying heavily on hearsay testimony from convicted drug traffickers , sought to prove a link between Noriega and the activities of the Colombian Medellín drug cartel , alleging among other things that Noriega had used President Fidel Castro of Cuba to mediate a dispute between him and the Colombian Medellín drug cartel . |
| 23 | Nothing now , it seemed , could stand between him and the Huge Reward . |