Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose . |
| 2 | In the case of solicitors this is clearly shown in Rakusen v Ellis , Munday & Clarke [ 1912 ] 1 Ch 831 where it was said " A solicitor can be restrained as a matter of absolute obligation and as a matter of general principle from disclosing any secrets which are confidentially reposed in him " . |
| 3 | For him this was as much a part of everyday routine as surgery and many children had been greatly helped by him when afraid or emotionally disturbed . |
| 4 | One day the King invited me to watch the regular entertainments , which are greatly enjoyed by him , his family , and his lords and ladies . |
| 5 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 6 | Clearly , the basis of paternalism — that decisions concerning a particular person 's fate are better made for him than by him , because others wiser than he are more keenly aware of his best interests than he can be — conflicts with the notion of a right to self-determination , whereby a person is deemed entitled to make his own decisions concerning himself , within tolerable limits , free from the interference of others . |
| 7 | Though Lugard later lost the simple faith of his childhood , he never lost the evangelical habit of spiritual self-scrutiny which had been so pronounced in him as a boy that his mother at one time feared that ‘ possibly ( though now in perfect health ) our Father may be about to remove him to the heavenly garner ’ . |
| 8 | The reason may be that all who knew the deceased are thus reminded of him and are invited to pray for his repose ( through St Theresa or otherwise ) . |
| 9 | He is an ego on legs and we 're well shut of him . |
| 10 | Now , with Liza gone , she felt she would be able to mourn Tom 's passing in her own quiet way for , despite his many failures as a husband , she had been deeply attached to him . |
| 11 | On 20 December Pope Clement V was persuaded to issue a Bull , declaring that the concessions Edward had made had been unjustly extorted from him by force , were incompatible with his coronation oath to defend the honour and rights of the Crown , and were therefore null and void . |
| 12 | While ordering the drawings in the Turner Bequest , Ruskin wrote to Elizabeth Browning in 1858 that he believed ‘ the old man 's soul had been gradually crushed within him , leaving him at the close of his life weak , sinful , desolate — nothing but his generosity and kindness of heart left ’ . |
| 13 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 14 | The variations of skeletal representation found by Wolff ( 1973 ) are also attributed by him to hydrodynamic sorting as a result of water transport . |
| 15 | All this had been carefully explained to him by Bewdsley , who had been sent to find him . |
| 16 | The plaintiff must have had a genuine freedom of choice before the defence can be successfully raised against him . |
| 17 | True , the word star could be loosely applied to him on the basis that he had ‘ starred ’ in more than a dozen films . |
| 18 | If the landlord is to have such a power it must be expressly conferred on him ; if the lease is silent as to the person by whom it is exercisable it will be exercisable by the tenant alone ( Wingfield ( L R ) v Clapton Construction Co Ltd ( 1967 ) 201 EG 769 ) . |
| 19 | For all his fortitude , and his determination to throw off what he called the ‘ yoke of despair ’ , screams of pain would be suddenly torn from him . |
| 20 | Trevelyan at the Treasury insisted that every scheme should be properly surveyed and costed , and be personally authorized by him in London , before work began . |
| 21 | When he heard that a role in Papillon would be especially created for him , he was not only flattered but asked for ( and got ) a salary of $1.25 million . |
| 22 | So he 'll phone her and she 'll say and I 'm still sat behind him rabbit , rabbit , rabbit , moan , moan , moan you see . |
| 23 | To his credit he obviously had strong parental affection and a powerful concern that the child should not be totally alienated from him . |
| 24 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 25 | the perfect adaption of the internal arrangements of the new India Office to the requirements of the Secretary of State for India in Council , Mr. M. Digby Wyatt 's experience be made available , and that the necessary designs and plans be accordingly prepared by him and Mr. Scott in communication with each other . |
| 26 | The scheme of the Section is that the income which the settlor by his disposition has diverted from himself and conferred on another shall be notionally restored to him while in fact continuing to be applied as he has directed . |
| 27 | Galadriel 's warning about the events in her mirror , ‘ Some never come to be , unless those that behold the visions turn aside from their path to prevent them ’ , would have been well said to him . |
| 28 | Benjamin stared as if the victim had been well known to him . |
| 29 | ‘ A pig … we are well rid of him . |
| 30 | An unfamiliar Derrida emerges from Norris 's book on him , not a nihilist , an artist-philosopher or a joker , but a profound thinker who does not uphold the positions that are popularly ascribed to him : irrationalism ; interpretation as an unending free-for-all ; meaning disappearing in a cloud of dispersing signifiers ; the abandonment of reference and the disappearance ( or death ) of the author . |