Example sentences of "him [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1756 he had opened his poem On the Goodness of the Supreme Being with an invocation to Orpheus ( the Gentiles ' David ) which beseeches him for inspiration for his great religious theme : |
| 2 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 3 | They 'll grab him for concealment of a felony or something . ’ |
| 4 | There were two of Hugh 's sergeants waiting impassively along the path , with a litter on which to lay him for passage to castle or abbey , according as Hugh should direct . |
| 5 | Stephen was talking to a tall , elegantly dressed woman , who looked younger than she actually was , and her much older husband when she joined him for lunch in the beach bar . |
| 6 | ‘ I might be able to see him for lunch in half an hour . ’ |
| 7 | Almost any ruler other than Haile Selassie would have confirmed the sentence of death passed on him for treason by the high court , but the Emperor was content to fine him heavily and imprison him . |
| 8 | Wordsworth received a ‘ good grounding ’ in the classics , but the object of the intensive mathematical training was to prepare him for success at Cambridge University . |
| 9 | Miller commended him for success with Kalmia latifola , and Peter Collinson knew of no other man who could raise the ‘ dusty seeds of the Kalmias , Rhododendrons of Azaleas ’ as he did . |
| 10 | He also pleaded interference with his duty to those by whom he was employed in a private practice of considerable extent , but his time at the College had been clearly specified — two hours for consultation by subscribers with sick horses on three days a week , with little or no call upon him for attendance at uncertain hours . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They ca n't charge him for possession of a packet of Victory V. ’ |
| 12 | Will the Minister respond urgently to the constructive plea that was put to him for help through which Northumberland could ease those budgetary restrictions this year and , of course , for an eventual change in that system ? |
| 13 | On Nov. 24 the Indian government accepted the appointment of Chakra Bastola as Nepali ambassador to India after the Bihar state government dropped charges against him for receipt of Rs3,000,000 claimed to have been on board a Royal Nepal Airlines flight which was hijacked to Forbesganj in June 1971 . |
| 14 | First , he had failed to do what he ought to have done when Bishop of Durham to discipline the ritualists in the parish of St Mary 's Tyne Dock , although some of the parishioners appealed to him for protection against illegal practices and ornaments of a Romish character . |
| 15 | This is perhaps nowhere more clearly seen than in Inca Peru where the Inca monarch headed an authoritarian welfare state in which his monopoly of the economic surplus , along with his military and policy power , meant that the citizen looked only to him for protection from his fellow men and from hunger , want and hardship . |
| 16 | 1156 followed its own decision in Rex v. Sheridan and applied it to facts which differed from those in Rex v. Sheridan only in that the defendant had there consented to be tried by a stipendiary magistrate and had pleaded guilty before the magistrate decided to commit him for trial on indictment . |
| 17 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 18 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 19 | No wonder Mr MacGregor produced his paper and called for full public discussion just as political pundits were tipping him for promotion in a ministerial reshuffle . |
| 20 | The cub became so domesticated he had to be put through a special programme to prepare him for life in his natural habitat . |
| 21 | To execute him for treason indeed would have been little help to the government in its attempt to crush and discredit the Reformation , but they could not proceed against him for heresy in due form until England was reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 22 | But again I held myself warily at a certain distance , not daring to make contact with him for fear of falling into the kind of trap Dana had prepared for me . |
| 23 | Unfortunately it never really delivered on the tantalising opening mention of Lee 's behind-the-scenes ‘ control ’ of black culture in NY and the unwillingness of critics to publicly diss him for fear of being shut out of the game . |
| 24 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |
| 25 | But you wo n't be able to make any decision while you cling to him for fear of other men . |
| 26 | Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him . |
| 27 | She just completely lost her nerve and was too afraid to tell him for fear of rejection . |
| 28 | Section 53(1) allows the buyer to set off damages due to him for breach of warranty against the price he owes the seller . |
| 29 | Sometimes X sells goods to Y who in turn sells them to Z. Sometimes , however , Y acts as X 's agent in selling to Z. In the former case Z buys his goods from Y and if they are not delivered or are defective Z can look to his seller , Y , and if necessary can sue him for breach of his contract of sale . |
| 30 | If that 's his case then I 'll take him for breach of contract . |