Example sentences of "him and the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fowler , who had been a member of the Cabinet since January 1981 [ see p. 30708 ] , stressed that he was leaving for " family reasons " and that there was no disagreement between him and the Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher . |
| 2 | However with Scott supporting him and the stable having hit form he should be able to knock out the odd winner or two in the coming weeks . |
| 3 | To the contrary , there is a growing , glum chance that events will pass him and the European Community by , for the speed of change in Eastern Europe — an East German head of state deposed on Wednesday , a Czechoslovak Prime Minister gone yesterday — has a bewildering momentum that quite outdistances the ability of any Council of Ministers to react . |
| 4 | A distraught Leonie tried unsuccessfully to contact Hugo to warn him and the first he knew of the débâcle was when he was summoned to Nicholson 's cramped stale-tobacco smelling office . |
| 5 | William Barr , the trainer , departed with him and the new secretary-manager got John Chaplin , his former trainer at Leeds , to come from Bristol Rovers . |
| 6 | Stephen had asked her to join him and the new general manager in his office that morning , and she had been eager to meet the young hotelier who came so highly qualified . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 've only got one thing to say to you , ’ says Joe , as I wave him and the other day-trippers off : ‘ Lucky bastard ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Midnight , if that 's th'name , the Cap'n says th'must attend to him and the other guests in the drawing-room . |
| 9 | Levi , in gratitude to Jesus , gave a party for him and the other disciples , to which a number of Levi 's friends were invited . |
| 10 | Sometimes he would forget himself in the beauty of their flight , not understanding why people would come to see him and the other miserable eagles caged and confined and not seem to even notice the gulls and bold black rooks soaring freely and so beautifully above their heads . |
| 11 | Torturing herself , she pictured him now , him and the other woman , lying in a bed much the same as the one she herself was lying in … making love . |
| 12 | Spencer was only caught after his victim went scouring the streets of the city looking for him and the other attackers . |
| 13 | You see one stayed but he was there before him and the other one carried on . |
| 14 | Mabbott 's reputation as a Leveller , which rests solely on the association which has been made between him and the radical newsbook , the Moderate , has been called into question . |
| 15 | Dougal desperately wanted to run away ; but Lorton was between him and the front door . |
| 16 | The turning point for him and the Soviet Union came in nineteen eighty five , when he succeeded Konstantin Chernenko as the General Secretary ; within one year , he 'd begun in earnest his reform programme , familiarising the world as well as his fellow Soviet citizens with words such as peristroika and glasnost . |
| 17 | Erm , resolution that Synod appoints Jo , John as Synod clerk for a period of up to three years to commence at a date mutually convenient to him and the present Synod clerk . |
| 18 | Between him and the famous pathologist now arriving , there was no love lost . |
| 19 | That , police said later , was just one of many differences between him and the super-rich daredevil namesake . |
| 20 | After we 've seen him and the young ladies have finished their calls I want you to take Irene Charial aside . ’ |
| 21 | General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland . |
| 22 | She knew Jennifer would be hurt at the mention of him and the poor girl had enough problems as it was without adding to them . |
| 23 | Johnson exploded off his starting blocks with more than his usual ferocity , and by ten metres there was daylight between him and the remaining seven . |
| 24 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |
| 25 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 26 | One of the few occasions I ever saw him and the only one in which we sat face to face . |
| 27 | I want to help him and the only way I can do that is try and find out who really killed her . |
| 28 | A bus was passing between him and the parked vehicle , and he hesitated … |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose , ' ’ Rab said , but he hardly felt the better ; not , with hobo drinkers , they looked at him and the tattooed barman called him Stick . |
| 30 | Him and the entire Nazi party . ’ |