Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Thompson asks about the emergence of classes he enquires into the choices and intentions of individuals , which are for him a crucial kind of evidence , and sees the process of class formation as one of self-making . |
| 2 | Their Lordships have no doubt that he was right to do so , for although it is obvious that a judge of subordinate jurisdiction has no power to make an order which directly governs the proceedings which not only are not before him but are in progress in a court of superior jurisdiction , the proposition that , when deciding what course to take as regards the furthering of the proceedings which are before him , he is forced to ignore the other proceedings entirely , is in their Lordships ' opinion quite unsustainable . |
| 3 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 4 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 5 | However , he says he is glad to have had an experience which afforded him ‘ unique access ’ to what he calls ‘ The Grand Theme : Life and Death ’ and to have lived through a slice of contemporary history , which is for him an important interest . |
| 6 | ‘ What person can know a man 's thoughts , ’ he asks , ‘ except the spirit of the man which is in him ? |
| 7 | Anaud had in some ways a curiously desexualized view of the body and spoke of a ‘ body without organs ’ , which was for him a body deprived mainly of functions of reproduction and defecation , that was mainly a locus of feeling and sensation . |
| 8 | Innocent was consecrated pope on the feast of St Peter 's Chair or Throne ( 22 February ) , which was for him deeply symbolic . |
| 9 | Whatever the uncertainties of the precise dates , events and social connections in Rolle 's life it is clear from external and internal evidence that he felt increasingly compelled towards a solitary life because it facilitated contemplative inner life which was for him the reality to be cultivated above all other . |
| 10 | He sounded irritable , which was unlike him . |
| 11 | He had arrived late , which was unlike him , and seemed tense and irritable . |
| 12 | Rakovsky was quiet , which was unlike him . |
| 13 | What are to him these tales of ancient days |
| 14 | What 's with him he ca n't adjust to reality ? " |
| 15 | What 's with him ? |
| 16 | ‘ It 's what 's in him that counts , ’ Kevin said . |
| 17 | Homo sapiens has chosen to venture into what is for him an unnatural environment and he does so at his peril . |
| 18 | As John of Climacus said : ‘ The man who has come to know himself is never fooled into reaching what is beyond him . |
| 19 | When turned back , though not flat , they show that the horse is interested in what is behind him , usually checking that the escape route is clear ; so does a rolled-back eye which reveals the white of the eyeball . |
| 20 | Ultimately , his change of pace and flight of the ball broke up the rhythm of Lee , who perhaps rather over pressed in the first set and found himself 0–5 down before he adjusted his momentum to claw four games back before Galasso 's touch and confidence returned , in what was for him a perfect final game and a match point won with a brilliant lob . |
| 21 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 22 | No one , he thought , and despised himself for what was to him an unnatural need . |
| 23 | He brushed aside all arguments of law , and concentrated on what was to him the central issue . |
| 24 | Both reactions intensified when Lord Wyatt looked around , surveying what was to him a motley collection of petty gentry , squires , and baronets . |
| 25 | What was beyond him to understand was why any man in his right mind would want to buy . |
| 26 | The lawyers , too , agreed that on the basis of what was before him , the Sheriff had no alternative . |
| 27 | The man felt his melancholy enlarge as if — oddly — to take on the shape and texture of what was before him . |
| 28 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |