Example sentences of "him [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry . |
| 2 | You bought him that from the garden fete . |
| 3 | The plaintiff must agree , expressly or impliedly , to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him due to the lack of reasonable care by the defendant . " |
| 4 | The plaintiff must agree , expressly or impliedly , to waive any claim for any injury that may befall him due to the lack of reasonable care by the defendant . " |
| 5 | The journey from Philadelphia was a fraught one , Boyd says , principally because Johnson — an uncompromisingly direct ladies ' man whose prolonged career as a plongeur had left him unused to the excitements of the open road — offered robust salutations to every woman pedestrian they passed en route . |
| 6 | Her 16-year-old brother was arrested and tortured ( they removed the skin from his face and the soles of his feet ) ; then they burnt him alive in the village square . |
| 7 | In Reg. v. Walhein ( 1952 ) 36 Cr.App.R. 167 , before the days of majority verdicts , after the jury had returned to court and one juror had said : ‘ I can not in my own mind find him guilty of the charge which prosecuting counsel have not proved , ’ the commissioner at the Central Criminal Court then said : |
| 8 | Kenneth Andrew Sanderson , of Wallace Avenue , Huyton , was sentenced in January 1991 after a Southampton Crown Court jury found him guilty of the two robberies for each of which he received seven years , concurrent ; he got six months concurrent for an admitted burglary . |
| 9 | He had had the playwright in his power , and been tempted to astonish the court and the television audiences by sucking him dry on the stand . |
| 10 | It was easy for him ; the cloak of arrogance he habitually wore probably made him oblivious to the speculation of people like the receptionist . |
| 11 | He had won the court case , had obtained over £2,000 in costs , was due £4,750 as his half share of the sale price of the Baron , and William Dunlop had still to pay him half of the stallion 's considerable stud earnings for the preceding six years . |
| 12 | And she offered him half of the yam that she had brought with her . |
| 13 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 14 | Rescuers took 19 minutes to cut him free from the mangled wreckage . |
| 15 | Firemen cut him free from the vehicle in a lay-by on the eastbound carriageway of the A45 at Risby , near Bury St Edmunds . |
| 16 | It will leave him heir-apparent to the Lonrho empire . |
| 17 | Hewlett , I rashly said I would send him some of the letters I had received from him . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps I could teach him some of the things I know instead ? ’ suggested the Bookman . |
| 19 | Without him some of the magic had gone from her life and the dullness encroached into her work , no matter how she tried to compartmentalise it . |
| 20 | Marian talked over with him some of the things that troubled her . |
| 21 | Now here was a boy who listened stolidly while Hugo read to him some of the greatest literature in the world ; who yawned over Villon ; who stared out of the window longingly while Hugo read Maupassant or Flaubert . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you disapprove of us , my angel ? ’ she asked , exalted by wine and overbearing , and took him down to the kitchen to give him some of the leftover chicken . |
| 23 | It held for him some of the same hubristic impermanence and , even as he gazed , he half expected it to bend and sway . |
| 24 | Eventually , most of his estates in Northumberland were entailed upon the Percy family , who may indeed have advanced him some of the money he needed in 1332 . |
| 25 | I 'll keep the boy close by me when we look for the treasure ; then , when we have both ship and treasure , we 'll persuade Jim to join us , and give him some of the treasure for all his help . ’ |
| 26 | In 1299 he reached an agreement with the king , granting him some of the Northamptonshire lands he had acquired in return for a remission of all the king 's financial claims against him . |
| 27 | The Fauves , who owed more to Gauguin from a purely pictorial standpoint , inherited from him some of the spontaneity and decorative rhythms of Polynesian art ; and by 1907 both Matisse and Derain had absorbed into their own work some of the formal properties of tribal sculpture . |
| 28 | Ratagan was leaning across the table and pouring him some of the dark , malty beer , but he could make no sense out of the big man 's words . |
| 29 | May I pass on to him some of the comments made to me by people I know in Belfast ? |
| 30 | His brother has lent him some for the time being , but Mr Szuluk says without proper clothes , he ca n't get a job . |