Example sentences of "him [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She admitted it but that was , she had drunk more than her share , that was , it was not to be taken seriously , there were , she could n't even remember saying it , it could have been him , he was drunk was n't he , misunderstanding or even making it up , after all he had done it , not her , he had taken the boy to London , she was asleep , did n't even hear them go , he had taken the boy and left him there , OK , lost him there , easy to do in London but better find him or all hell would break loose and she was not going to carry the can , not for anybody . |
| 2 | The threat need not be one offering physical violence , since it may be such as to provoke another to engage in violence , although it usually will be an offer of force of some kind leading the victim to believe that violence against him or another person is about to be used or provoked . |
| 3 | ‘ Thank you , no , ’ said Sally-Anne impatiently ; she needed no condescension from him or any man . |
| 4 | No person acting under a proxy may vote in favour of any resolution which would directly or indirectly place him or any associate of his in a position to receive any remuneration out of the estate of the bankrupt ( r 8.6(1) ) . |
| 5 | Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) . |
| 6 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 7 | He 'd gone on saying it until people complained and the landlord was forced to tell him that such talk amounted to the spreading of gloom and despondency ; it was almost as bad as careless talk and would land him in the Bridewell if the police got to hear . |
| 8 | Minch had taught him that neither feeling was useful to an eagle unless it was controlled . |
| 9 | Corbett grinned back ; a Welshman had once told him that each person has an aura about him , be it good or evil , which goes out to other people . |
| 10 | A moment 's thought told him that this system worked only because two-thirds of the expected total of a Yeo Davis partnership came out at an amount well in excess of his salary , or that of any public servant of his age . |
| 11 | I reassured him that this warning was unnecessary : my ambition was to set the record for the slowest lap of the circuit . |
| 12 | hours I told him that this glimpse |
| 13 | He had heard so many stories of musket balls lodging in Bibles , not of course that he really believed them , but all the same What he wanted to do now was to find some immoral passages with which to confront the Padre , thereby proving to him that this book could not possibly be the word of God ( unadulterated , anyway ) . |
| 14 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 15 | The two-way division agreed at Aachen in March 842 is best seen as a way of putting pressure on Lothar , convincing him that this time he had no alternative to opening negotiations in earnest . |
| 16 | I dashed across to the DC 's house to tell him that this train with several hundred refugees was standing in the station , and some shelter must be found for them . |
| 17 | ‘ At the moment , it seems impossible to convince him that any kind of action at all is necessary . ’ |
| 18 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 19 | Jean felt belittled ; for as long as the dance lasted she seemed no more to him than any girl there , but then he came round to her again and clasped her closely as they stepped it down the aisle between the lines of dancers . |
| 20 | There was a warm round of applause for him and much head-nodding by old women of both sexes . |
| 21 | He told Aenarion that if he sought such corrupt power he would bring eons of tragedy to the Elves , that he and his line would be accursed to the last generation , that the gods would turn their faces from him and that Aenarion himself would surely die . |
| 22 | The trustee is to chair meetings of the committee , but he may nominate someone else to stand in for him and that person must either be an employee of his experienced in insolvency matters or another qualified insolvency practitioner ( r 6.154 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 24 | Well him and that guy that I was talking about the one with the job . |
| 25 | but Richard was sure he wanted it done and nothing came between him and that intention . |
| 26 | Because underneath it all she was as strong as him and that strength appealed to him , making her a challenge . |
| 27 | Although it was clear that Mr Smith adopted a much warmer tone towards the unions than his predecessor Neil Kinnock , the speech also marked an attempt to ease tension between him and some union barons . |
| 28 | Mr Graham had said he stabbed Anthony Sweeny in self defence after catching him and another man breaking into a neighbour 's flat in Bartram Road , Brockley , south London , on August bank holiday . |
| 29 | I wrote to Mr. Desmond Ingard as we arranged , and I met him and another member of his board this morning . |
| 30 | It is a defence for a person charged with ‘ Being in Charge ’ to prove that at the time he is alleged to have committed the offence the circumstances were such that there was no likelihood of his driving the vehicle whilst the proportion of alcohol in his breath , blood or urine remained likely to exceed the prescribed limit ; but in determining whether there was such a likelihood the court may disregard any injury to him and any damage to the vehicle . |