Example sentences of "him and [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr George Henry Quarry , a Belfast solicitor was then applied to for some land at the top of Carrickblacker Road but initially there was no response from him and other possible sites investigated were some ground opposite where James 's Street now stands and land behind where the little Roman Catholic church was later built ( now Pritchard 's Motors ) and near the site of Edenderry Orange Hall . |
| 2 | His rightful heir , according to the tradition of tanistry , should have been Kenneth III 's grandson , but Malcolm had already disposed of him and other possible candidates while laying plans for his own grandson Duncan to succeed . |
| 3 | They are required to act in an open way and to involve the child , those caring for him and other significant people in his life . |
| 4 | But she had thought that she could make something of him and that small semi-detached house outside Norwich represented nine months of hard work and achievement . |
| 5 | Until now , the woman had been careful not to reveal how she had witnessed what passed between him and that lovely creature at the docks . |
| 6 | Of course , Mr Nakamura could not have done it without a lot of help from his staff : two of them resigned with him and all other executives are taking a six month pay cut of between 20 per cent and 50 per cent . |
| 7 | His great technical knowledge and ability were combined with thoroughness ; all important engineering drawings were personally approved by him and all new features were tested on prototypes before being put into quantity production . |
| 8 | Alington allowed him and two other canons to introduce the daily sacrament on condition that they did not expect it to be part of the cathedral 's official usage . |
| 9 | Informers named him and two other public figures . |
| 10 | The parents had invited him and two other members of Martin Frears ' alleged gang . |
| 11 | Other factors — such as de Gaulle 's deep-rooted suspicion of British designs on the French empire and the personal animosities which developed between him and various British and American officials — aggravated tensions but their root cause was a complete disagreement as to whether Free France should act and be treated as an independent sovereign power . |
| 12 | Nothing was too daunting for him and each new part was dispatched with the same intelligence and mental and bodily concentration . |
| 13 | Despite his obvious scientific expertise , the Board of Excise seems to have had some doubts and in 1845 instructed him and nine other officers to matriculate at University College London and attend classes in general and analytical chemistry . |
| 14 | For instance , Yadin Dudai in Jerusalem , amongst others , has exploited the behavioural and biochemical possibilities opened up by mutations amongst fruit flies ; for him and some other neurobiologists Drosophila has become as popular as it has been for most of this century for geneticists . |
| 15 | Now he found a young man from a few doors away was home on leave from the Royal Engineers and spent some of his leave with him and some visiting relations , as men on leave were expected to do . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 17 | At Gbagbo 's trial , which began on Feb. 27 , lawyers called for all charges against him and 19 other defendants to be dropped " to prove to the world that the rule of law exists and that Côte d'Ivoire is not a police state " . |
| 18 | A warrant was out for Aung San , but Suzuki helped him and another young Thakin , Hla Myaing , to escape by ship . |
| 19 | She will be half pleased to see him and half disapproving ; and that will be the beginning once again of something so painful and awkward that the possibility of happiness must be concealed in it somewhere . |
| 20 | There is such a difference between him and these old timers . |
| 21 | ‘ It would have been terribly unfair to him and any possible new owners to find him a new home when he was in such a terrible state . |
| 22 | My agents could find no connection between him and any Irish organization or group . |
| 23 | The buildings of the area also really interested him and those small grey stone houses nestling into the clefts and valleys have never been shown so naturally . |
| 24 | They were here in a deserted old house in the middle of nowhere on a black and starless night in one of the more mysterious bits of Scotland , and there was a scrabbling , clawy sort of noise coming from the ceiling above him and this other drunk , stoned man . |
| 25 | The blind god Hod , enraged by the false words of the evil Loki , hurled a bunch of the stuff at him and Balder fell lifeless to the ground . |