Example sentences of "[noun sg] between him [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps this was why , increasingly , Henry saw life as a struggle between him and the things his wife cared for so passionately — whales , seals , Aborigines , dolphins …
2 But in an earlier case , he said , it had been held that the authority of the stewards of the National Greyhound Racing Club to suspend a trainer 's licence was derived solely from a contract between him and the club and that the stewards were purely a domestic tribunal .
3 The managing director did not have a written contract of employment or other documentation recording any agreement or contract between him and the company ( p 104 ) .
4 ‘ Dr. Roy 's printed case contained detailed arguments in favour of a contract between him and the committee , but before your Lordships Mr. Lightman simply argued that the doctor had a private law right , whether contractual or statutory .
5 The surety often takes the position from motives of friendship to the debtor , and generally not as a result of any direct bargaining between him and the creditor , or in consideration of any remuneration passing to him from the creditor .
6 Rumours of a split between him and the company had been rife at its plants yesterday .
7 It 's basically a love story between him and a , see he 's a , he 's a cowboy officer , and she , she 's a Indian Squaw obviously , they fall in love and they all this sort of vote of comment on .
8 ‘ It 's going to be a good contest between him and the Indian batsmen . ’
9 But the king 's failure to impose his ecclesiastical policy on Scotland and the tension between him and the English Parliament in 1640 forced the earl to reconsider his position .
10 He is not interested in them sexually , so there is no direct confrontation between him and the newcomer .
11 So Blade urges punters to fill the gap between him and the bar before he kicks off .
12 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 .
13 CHRISTIE has time to raise his arms in triumph as he crosses the line for his 100-metres win — with clear daylight between him and the pack .
14 It was expected that she would show sympathy with the white settler minority associated with Ian Smith 's Rhodesia Front and propose a deal between him and the near-puppet government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa .
15 ‘ Normally I 'm accused of the reverse , ’ he says dryly , adding that you could not slip a playing card between him and the rest of the shadow Cabinet on policy .
16 This was nothing less than a battle between him and the mighty Trunchbull .
17 This was not quite ready when Mozart set off for Munich and so Mozart 's letters to his father , who acted as intermediary between him and the librettist , reveal a great deal of the process of writing .
18 He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men .
19 Tony sat it out — in my tent I feel obliged to tell him — listening for the noise of a train , a noise that meant the wind was coming up the defile between him and the sea .
20 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 .
21 In reality , however , the difference between him and a shareholder may not be anything like as clear-cut , for the debenture may give the holder a contractual right : — to appoint a director ; to a share of profits ( whether or not available for dividend ) ; to repayment at a premium ; to attend and vote at general meetings and even to convert his debentures into equity shares .
22 On or off-screen , there 's no difference between him and the capital 's hip hop homeboys .
23 That was the only difference between him and the pilots and the mechanics below him .
24 There is no room between him and the chariot for a groom corresponding to the one holding the reins in the opposite wing ; nor , if the girl is rightly placed , was there one at the horses ' heads .
25 It was as if the Secretary of State were directly running the railways himself , with no chairman or managing director between him and the service .
26 William normally ate as if food were some sort of obstacle between him and the next vital task , an obstacle which had to be demolished in as short a time as possible .
27 Shore talks about his ‘ wood ’ ( guess ) a lot , which is the ma-ay-jor differentiating factor between him and the Bill and Ted/Wayne and Garth axis .
28 Finally , and perhaps most dangerously , became to believe that his restoration was evidence of some sort of divinely inspired relationship between him and the Iranian people .
29 Better , at all costs , however , or so she had reasoned , to put twenty miles and a border between him and a hanging .
30 When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him .
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