Example sentences of "him [adj] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents and doctors want to switch off the system which has kept him alive since the 1989 , but fear the legal implications . |
| 2 | James ' experience with the P.N.M. left him convinced that the middle class in the Caribbean was an impediment to the building of a new society . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm afraid this is what you 'll have had every day of your life , ’ she said to him later as the au-pair girl put a plate of mutton in front of him . |
| 4 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
| 5 | The rats disturbed him more than the previous night . |
| 6 | Jessop had considerable scruples about taking the ‘ engagement ’ , or loyalty oath to the republic ; the abolition of the House of Lords seems to have upset him more than the 1649 regicide and abolition of the monarchy . |
| 7 | The shadow of Tig masked him more than the ferocious wound that had blinded his left eye and decorated his cheeks with scars . |
| 8 | A conducted tour of the house by the whole family , brought him at last to the top floor where his bedroom was proudly displayed , which , though huge and filled with awesome furniture of hideous elaboration , impressed him less than the meticulous care with which his soldier servant — batman was apparently a naughty word in the Guards — had unpacked his belongings and laid all essentials neatly in the right places . |