Example sentences of "him [conj] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're trying to focus attention on the presenter , the person giving the speech or answering the questions and it is a dreadful distraction to have beside and behind him or her numbers of men and women who invariably want to whisper , gesticulate , stare in the wrong direction , scratch their heads , pick their noses or make their exits at completely the wrong moment . |
| 2 | Susan said that she had no intention of letting him into her life ; she did not trust him or his relationships with women , ‘ from what I observed of him , and I do n't think he felt very secure with me because of my straightforwardness ’ . |
| 3 | An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’ |
| 4 | She assured him that his apprehensions about her travelling late at night were quite unfounded : she and her sisters had been allowed to travel about unaccompanied in Southport and London since the age of twelve or thirteen . |
| 5 | He thought of his bed at the Rorim ; then he thought of Madra in it , her warmth under him and her hands on his back , her hair in his mouth . |
| 6 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 7 | It had given great anxiety to him and his collagues on the bench . |
| 8 | This was taken by him and his sons as a sacred treasure when they went into Egypt . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's just that Luke invited Heather and me to join him and his friends for dinner last night . |
| 10 | The apparently unbridgeable gulf between him and his contemporaries in terms of sheer footballing skill made him an exceptional and enormously wealthy black man , after a childhood spent amidst the poverty and squalor of Bauru ( see Pelé and Fish , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | Of course to people like Mr. Tully who benefit by the British presence in the occupied part of our country ( a country which was partitioned against the will of the vast majority of our population ) the current whereabouts of Barleycorn is an unpleasant reminder that the Republican movement will not be cowed by threats from the likes of him and his cohorts in the Unionist parties in the failed political entity of Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |
| 13 | He spent November at Roxburgh , where he issued letters patent in which he recognized Edward III as lord superior of Scotland and declared that he had already done homage to Edward , in return for which Edward had agreed to maintain and protect him and his heirs in the kingdom . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Fitzpeter had intended these to be large , for King John had granted to him and his heirs by Aveline the castle and honour of Berkhamsted . |
| 15 | The merchants and better sort sent deputations to the Governor , and the common folk mobbed him and his lieutenants in the streets . |
| 16 | It was only Operation Eagle that saved him and his men from the penal unit they were serving in . ’ |
| 17 | Robert himself , afflicted by leprosy , spent the last two years of his life in Cardross castle beside the Clyde , dying before he could learn that the Pope had lifted his excommunication and acknowledged him and his successors as rulers of Scotland . |
| 18 | The politics of the street , which had played such a large part in putting Ian Paisley into Stormont , had now returned him and his supporters to the streets . |
| 19 | Mrs Mentle , the widow of her late husband , gave a short introductory speech in praise of him and his achievements for the club . |
| 20 | Had it not been for him and his colleagues at the National Trust many old and historical buildings would have suffered . |
| 21 | I thank my hon. Friend for that reply , and I commend him and his colleagues on their splendid work in restoring the centre of Belfast , especially the excellent shopping facilities . |
| 22 | The question here , however , is one that occupied him and his colleagues for many years of sometimes acrimonious debate with mammalian psychologists : . |
| 23 | His career of sado-sophistication , or ‘ snobbery with violence ’ as it was dubbed , brought his sales up to eighty million copies and does not need chronicling again except to point the contrast between him and his forbears in popular secret agent fiction . |
| 24 | The European championship win still has him and his fans on the edge of their seats ! |
| 25 | It would pin him up against the nearest wall and try to eat his clothes , or chase him until his cries of fright attracted everyone 's amused attention . |
| 26 | At the present time we are much in prayer for a lad called David and we would ask you all to join in prayer for him as he battles against his addiction to alcohol — remembering our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms . |
| 27 | Crawford played Battersea Bats leader Peter Toms , complete with short trousers , who throws out one of his members , ‘ Foureyes ’ Fulton , blaming him when their plans for an exceptional car are stolen by Victoria Victors leader Lew Lender . |