Example sentences of "him [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he unjustifiably rejects them , the seller may sue him for damages for non-acceptance or , possibly , will have an action for the price ( see paragraph 13–05 and Chapter 12 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the buyer wrongfully neglects or refuses to accept and pay for the goods , the seller may maintain an action against him for damages for non-acceptance. ( 2 ) The measure of damages is the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting , in the ordinary course of events , from the buyer 's breach of contract . |
| 3 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 4 | It was an understood thing that Mr Joe , Sir , as he was now — and that was hard to take in — was still in shock , for he walked about like someone in a dream and would stand staring in front of him for minutes on end . |
| 5 | Month after month , the director Fritz Saxl sent letters to the senior civil servant at the Office of Works , Frederic Raby , asking him for shelves to be provided . |
| 6 | It did occur to me that since everyone seemed to be playing a game with rules unknown to me , Robert might not be concerned only that I would be bored by myself , but he might want me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 7 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 8 | He would have to brief Karr afterwards on how to escape from this situation , otherwise First Advocate Kung would be calling upon him for favours from here until doomsday , playing upon the Major 's need not to lose face . |
| 9 | In these circumstances , where a director alleges an agreement with a committee of the Board for payment of remuneration , the court will not , in law or equity , award a sum to him for services to the company , as in relying on such an alleged agreement the director involves himself in an irreconcilable conflict between his duties as a director and his personal interests . |
| 10 | Well , what is a man to do , deprived at a stroke of his habitual daily employment for forty years and living for the first time with his widowed younger sister who is always surveying him for signs of disorder , be they physical , emotional or sartorial , and nagging him about unpunctuality for meals . |
| 11 | He found the personal habits of the coolie recruiter deeply repugnant and this only increased the resentment he felt at his helpless dependence on him for replacements to his dwindling labor force . |
| 12 | He also had 6½d a day allowed to him for lunches at work and demanded that 1/1d a week be spent on ‘ relishes ’ for his breakfast and tea — usually consisting of an egg , a piece of bacon , or fish . |
| 13 | Vologsky had never seen a need to question Kirov 's authenticity , or to probe him for details of his mother and father . |
| 14 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 15 | There 'd be free drinks for him for years in the Wise Serpent in Micklethwaite Road , Fulham . |
| 16 | Whether they get the computer software , dolls and musical instruments they asked him for remains to be seen . |
| 17 | But Ken 's experience in working with wood , coupled to a keen eye for design , was soon put to good use when customers asked him for ideas on pond layout , particularly those with a Japanese flavour . |
| 18 | Mother took him for lessons on the violin when he was five years old . |
| 19 | A heavy air of preoccupation hung over him for days after his return , and I recall once , in reply to my inquiring how he had enjoyed his trip , his remarking : ‘ Disturbing , Stevens . |
| 20 | In the modern age he is expected to lead and the people look to him for solutions to their problems , but the chances of his being allowed to do what he needs to do are negligible . |
| 21 | The short , nine-day voyage was accompanied by beautiful weather , and brought with it one of Gould 's most elusive and sought-after species of petrel , one that had tantalised him for weeks aboard the Parsee , although the occasion was , as Gould liked to emphasise , as much a result of his own ingenuity as it was of chance or convenience : |
| 22 | ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess . |
| 23 | An upbringing designed to carry him through changes of regime and frontier , possible loss of every worldly possession , and , in the event of crisis , protracted stays with distant relatives ensconced wherever the aristocracy was tolerated , from the Polish border to Hyde Park Gate , in short , a good European background , had made him totally self-contained and able with sunny smile and the formal handshake of the gymnase to set almost anybody at their ease , even the flustered Nenna . |
| 24 | Foley regarded him through clouds of aromatic smoke . |
| 25 | There he revealed himself as god and ordered them to serve him as priests in his new shrine . |
| 26 | All these factors served him as rules for the composition of the blends . |
| 27 | The devil and sin exist for him as states of mind in which the true location of the godhead is not recognized , even though such unenlightened awareness still functions as a praise of God . |
| 28 | To be sure , if a person accepts the legitimacy of an authority then its instructions are accepted by him as reasons for conforming action . |
| 29 | In 1469 , King Louis XI of France conferred with King Henry IV of Castile here ; in 1526 the captive King Francis I was exchanged for his two sons , who stood in for him as hostages with his great enemy , the Emperor Charles V ; in 1659 , the Peace of the Pyrenees between France and Spain was negotiated on the island ; and a year later , the contract of marriage was signed which consolidated that epoch-making treaty , between Louis XIV and the Infant a ( it was while helping to decorate the Spanish pavilion for the occasion that the painter Velázquez is said to have caught his death of cold ) . |
| 30 | But there are moments when we experience the charm and courtesy which drew English men and women to him as helpers in his continental mission . |