Example sentences of "him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |
| 2 | He is clearly rather tired of preaching the design gospel when it has been evident to him for many years the fundamental role it plays in good business practice . |
| 3 | That five was to haunt him for many months afterwards . |
| 4 | Doubts about the genuineness of his own faith troubled him for many years . |
| 5 | Guilt besieged him for many years . |
| 6 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 7 | It was a perfect opportunity for some writers to express the resentment which they had harboured against him for many years , and he himself was convinced that such people detested him because he had acquired British citizenship . |
| 8 | She had known him for many years . |
| 9 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 10 | So we wo n't see him for many years , perhaps never again ! |
| 11 | Although his faith in the combined system was not shared during his lifetime by the majority of his fellow teachers in Great Britain , he was nevertheless held in great respect , and the editorship of the journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf — The Teacher of the Deaf — was entrusted to him for many years . |
| 12 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 13 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 14 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 15 | " He is , but we have n't seen him for many , many years , for more than we can remember . " |
| 16 | ‘ And , ’ Claire continued , confirming her misgivings , ‘ his heart is tied up with a woman , one who has been with him for many years now . ’ |
| 17 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 18 | I have n't seen him for many years . ’ |
| 19 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 20 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 21 | He took over his own printing company called E L Hildreth in the forties and in the fifties sometime sold that out and set up a design shop to produce books and magazines , near Brattleboro , Vermont , and the prep school that I went to had retained him for many years as their printing adviser and , you know , he did the catalogues . |
| 22 | He was dressed in the garb of a typical construct worker , so that anybody he passed would take him for such . |
| 23 | ‘ Offensive weapon means any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him , or by some other person , per section 1(4) Prevention Of Crime Act 1953 as amended by the Public Order Act 1986 Schedule 2 paragraph 2 . |
| 24 | Would those older cadets actually report him for such an infringement , on Lexandro 's part , of cousinly courtesy ? |
| 25 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 26 | This was no doubt an acceptable enough decision on the facts had the EAT not propounded the thesis that ‘ if it was reasonable for [ the employee ] to decline these terms , then it would have been unreasonable for the employers to dismiss him for such refusal ’ . |
| 27 | A weapon of offence is defined in s.10(1) ( b ) as " any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to or incapacitating a person or intended by the person having it with him for such use " . |
| 28 | The inclusion of this clause enables him to recover all loss , however remote , ( provided he can prove causation ) suffered as a result of the sellers 's wrongful acts , since the seller has , by the clause , undertaken an express obligation to compensate him for such loss . |
| 29 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 30 | ‘ To howl down a man just because he happens to be out of form one day is often sufficient to discourage him for all time , ’ he told the Yorkshire Evening Post . |