Example sentences of "him [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I just do n't know what he 's , he 's , he 's , he 's , he 's seeing his future as being and erm maybe cos we have n't got , maybe erm it 's because of the generation gap , maybe it 's because of communication problems either between me and him or the young and old or whatever but , you know , he just does n't seem to have anything to volunteer er other than ah well I 'll try and get a job or ah well I 'll try and get some more qualifications or whatever . |
| 2 | Jack Butler was almost ugly when he was angry ; it was a side of him that the many thousands of women who watched racing only to catch a glimpse of him never saw . |
| 3 | I agree with him that the practical objections to taking this course are not sufficient to prevent this House from establishing the law in accordance with both principle and justice . |
| 4 | Funakoshi 's son , Yoshitaka , became something of a driving force behind his father 's club , and it is to him that the famous ‘ mawashi geri ’ , or roundhouse kick , is accredited . |
| 5 | One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned . |
| 6 | It seemed to him that the essential Eileen had already receded from her eyes . |
| 7 | Yet his criticism of false miracles undermined the foundations of popular belief and it was to him that the future heretic Blanco White acknowledged his debt . |
| 8 | Nkomo had convinced him that the black and white people in South Africa are inter-dependent , that bitterness clouds honest thought , and that what is needed is a God-led , non-racial ideology . |
| 9 | For a child to feel free to respond to a make-believe situation , there must be sufficient signals in the environment reminding him that the real world continues to exist . |
| 10 | After all it had been Bliss who had warned him that Nadirpur was embroiled with the Pessarane Behesht , Bliss who had informed him that the real cargo was arms . |
| 11 | It was n't long after the conversation about the Ivor Novello Award that he became much more resolved that he did n't need Ken Pitt as manager , so I said to him that the only thing he could do in that case was to get an attorney who would break the contract . |
| 12 | People who had persuaded him that the only safe time to take out the dog was after the hours of darkness , when you were only likely to meet George ‘ Let's Get Rabbits ’ Grover . |
| 13 | There remains the third course , to throw Clarke over altogether and tell him that the highest point of his career has been reached . |
| 14 | I assure him that the highest priority will be given to developing those roads , within the budget by which we are currently constrained . |
| 15 | A government spokesman said Professor Guido de Marco , Foreign Minister , had received a letter from his Libyan counterpart informing him that the two bomb suspects had asked to be tried in Malta , and asking Malta to accede to this request . |
| 16 | Now , ahead of d'Alembord , the gun-fire rumbled like dull thunder to remind him that the two thousand six hundred pounds must be earned the hard way . |
| 17 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not angry with our old friend , ’ Doctor Jekyll wrote , ‘ but I agree with him that the two of us must never meet again . |
| 19 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 20 | They advised him that the Spanish government had evidence of Italian and German intervention and urged him to supervise the non-intervention agreement more effectively . |
| 21 | Consequently , it is to him that the European world owes a uniform calendar corresponding to the needs of a universal society and based upon the Christian year . |
| 22 | He told us that he expected to be posted to the front at some time in the next few weeks but he would still be home by Christmas ; an officer had told him that the bloody Huns would have been sent packing long before then . |
| 23 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 24 | He continued to use the coupling after it had become apparent to him that the locking mechanism of the coupling was broken . |
| 25 | Dominican thinker Matthew Fox informs us that a friend of his has told him that the right side of the brain is all about awe . |
| 26 | He also liked to remind him that the first time he had seen him was during the military parade in Cairo to celebrate Kuhammad Rea 's marriage to Princes Fawzia in 1939 . " |
| 27 | They had also taught him that the first thing to do with a wounded man was clear his breathing . |
| 28 | So I taught him that the first week , and the second week we went back and there was still only him , so it I taught him how to rewire a plug how to do it properly and er went back a third week and he was s still the only one there , so we went through it again , see if he 'd picked it up and he had n't so . |
| 29 | Will he also tell him that the first priority must be to reform the common agricultural policy , to remove the losses from fraud which occur within that policy and , especially , to bring about a successful conclusion to the GATT negotiations ? |
| 30 | In 1923 , at a Balliol gaudy , he met his old tutor , A. L. Smith [ q.v. ] , now the master , who advised him that the best cure for blindness was to have the teeth extracted . |