Example sentences of "him [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the duty of the trustee to report to the committee all such matters as appear to him or as the committee have indicated to him to be of concern to them with respect to the administration of the estate ( r 6.152(1) ) . |
| 2 | ‘ ( a ) that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and ( b ) that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or any person under his control . ’ |
| 3 | that the commission of the offence was due to a mistake or to reliance on information supplied to him or to the act or default of another person , an accident or some other cause beyond his control ; and |
| 4 | I am not going to suggest to him or to the House that I am not prepared to pay such a visit . |
| 5 | ‘ who was present with him or on the vehicle ’ . |
| 6 | Mr Macfadyen put it to him that at the meeting with Mackie the next day he had not advised him that Shanks & McEwan intended to issue a profits warning . |
| 7 | Likewise Churchill , who would have agreed with her sentiment when she told him that without the Board of Education , the Board of Trade was ‘ powerless ’ to make ‘ a better worker , a better man , or a better citizen of the young worker . ’ |
| 8 | The judge told Cranog Jones that his plan had been ingenious , but warned him that as a magistrate , he would have a hard time in prison . |
| 9 | Erm give him that on a calculator , some things add one , |
| 10 | that , if you 've got a , an H Q graduate if you call him that on a job he 's still charged that job . |
| 11 | I tell him that in a depression , manners are the first casualties . |
| 12 | Specifically in Highways and Planning , if you look at the previous report , the enclos following profile one , you will see that in the Highways Planning Department excepting the offices , it is almost entirely male , and I think this is , it 's for the Director of Highways and Planning to say in the end , I think this is an acknowledgement by him that in the way that you mentioned nevertheless it seems to be apparent in some way , shape or form , women are not getting equal opportunity in that department . |
| 13 | When they met at work Rachel remained so cool with him that by the end of the week it was as if the little interlude in the pool and the club had never happened . |
| 14 | Now , we hear time and time again of the one million capital that was spent and yes and I do hope that the provisions that will now be made through a combined budget which Mr seems to think is half a million but I can assure you it is not half a million however , I do I can further reassure him that by the time the Highfields er and Moat management committee have gone through with this it will be half a million , there will be a proper budget provision as it should have been in the last five to six years . |
| 15 | Ken told him that after a performance of Call My Bluff a woman approached him and asked , ‘ Any chance of a fuck ? ’ |
| 16 | I fear the world invisible is more visible to him than to the rest of us . |
| 17 | As a consequence she may be more likely to mate with him than with a male who is less explicit about his state . |
| 18 | Sarin did n't want to tell me , then he said I 'd know soon enough , and better from him than over the radio . |
| 19 | So the shock he felt now was fuelled more by the power of the deceit worked upon him than by the sex of the deceiver . |
| 20 | Anselm was to learn too late that a landowner had more to fear from grasping tenants beneath him than from the king above . |
| 21 | And because a bored person has more time to think about himself and his problems , those physical results of stress may well progress more rapidly in him than in the person whose mind is always on other things . |
| 22 | However , Mungo was less interested in him than in the background shapes . |
| 23 | That he could not command the bench of bishops into a unified stance on political affairs reflects less upon him than upon the variety of episcopal origins and experience : royal clerks may have been increasing among the bishops , but it is a mistake to regard them as if they were all identical in background and outlook . |
| 24 | Neither his mother nor Alice ever spoke of him except in the company of casual acquaintances who felt the need to utter embarrassed condolences from which there was no escape . |
| 25 | I endorse everything that has been said from both sides of the House in support and admiration of him and of the courage and fortitude that he and his family have displayed . |
| 26 | Whatever the reason , no other reputable yard would touch him and for a while Charles drifted about on the fringe of racing . |
| 27 | It destroyed him and for a time he was engulfed by a deep chasm of despair , drinking heavily , taking amphetamines and LSD — and he was in his sixteenth year of smoking marijuana . |
| 28 | The man stopped a foot away from him and for a moment or two William stopped struggling . |
| 29 | She looked at him and for a moment he thought that this time it was going to be easy , this time she would believe him and go to sleep . |
| 30 | He had it then , as clear as a map of a well-charted route unfolded on the captain 's table , what lay in store for him and for the settlement ; though the islanders had not burned wet leaves and swelled white smoke into a pillar of cloud to issue a warning , the signal might as well have been as clear . |