Example sentences of "him [prep] [noun] [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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ ( 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 . |
| 4 | BANKRUPT former publican Maurice Siddle was contemplating suicide before police stopped him for drink-driving on Christmas Day , a court heard . |
| 5 | The girl who had interviewed him for Leaders of Mankind . |
| 6 | They 'll grab him for concealment of a felony or something . ’ |
| 7 | With three in ten games under Ossie Ardiles , who signed him for £250,000 for Leicester in December , Kelly 's acquisition looked like another dud deal by the Magpies until Keegan 's celebrated second coming on Tyneside . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Rees , 25 , was on loan to Norwich from West Bromwich Albion when Dave Bassett signed him for £25,000 on transfer-deadline day . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I might be able to see him for lunch in half an hour . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Toshack 's admiration for Shankly , who signed him for Liverpool from Cardiff in 1970 , is unquestionably deep : still the overwhelming influence on his career . |
| 19 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 20 | ‘ They ca n't charge him for possession of a packet of Victory V. ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |