Example sentences of "him of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment , a warning pressure reminded him of its menacing presence . |
| 2 | While the firm would not be compelled to disclose or utilise the information about B when advising A , the fact that it owes a duty of confidentiality to B will not necessarily constitute a defence to a breach of its duty of disclosure to A. If the firm is to be fully protected it must obtain A2 's consent to its acting in the conflict situation after informing him of its conflicting duties and the fact that it can not perform its full duties of disclosure . |
| 3 | Reputable government officials grovelled to assure him of their impeccable record of loyal activities in the YMCA , as a boy scout , a churchgoer , a Sunday School activist . |
| 4 | Looking right then left he saw the signals with their warning lights reassuring him of their presence . |
| 5 | Next day , Gardiner and Foxe , pressed by the King for their advice as to how to end his long and tedious suit , told him of their conversation with Cranmer . |
| 6 | They talked to him of their lives as if by that they smeared some ointment on their existence . |
| 7 | ‘ Shih Clarac , ’ he answered , distancing the man at once and subtly reminding him of their relative status . |
| 8 | 2–10–1905 They discussed the report of the Synod Committee and were dissatisfied , the report being " a misrepresentation of the state of the congregation " and expressed their sympathy with Rev. Peter Stewart and assured him of their full confidence . |
| 9 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 10 | You had only to ride out the storm — inside preferably — ’ with a flash of humour as the heavens reminded him of their still present threat ‘ — and the dust would soon have settled . |
| 11 | Both Major and Hurd had met with Patten in London on Nov. 14 to assure him of their backing . |
| 12 | She rose on to her knees and looked as though she was praying , but her eyes were fully open and the clenched look on her remarkably white face with its mannish black eyebrows suddenly reminded him of her dead mother . |
| 13 | She told him of her unhappiness , but she knew that , because of his love of the house , it would be difficult to convince him to move . |
| 14 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 15 | She agreed to avoid alcohol , and because the next session was not for a week , to telephone the therapist in 3 days time to inform him of her progress . |
| 16 | ‘ Although her captivity chafed her and her disappearance , as the lord King has found cause to remind me , has deprived him of her considerable ransom . |
| 17 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 18 | She wrote to Dick , not mentioning her miscarriage , telling him of her plans . |
| 19 | One incident in particular had convinced him of her genuineness . |
| 20 | Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage . |
| 21 | In turn , she told him of her life under Benedicta 's wing , making him laugh when she related her earlier antics and gave creditable impersonations of the good Sisters . |
| 22 | What if , by her doing nothing , they were able to convince him of her treachery and turn him against her for ever ? |
| 23 | She told him of her suspicions . |
| 24 | His instinct for self preservation had warned him of her move long before she had made it . |
| 25 | On impulse , she decided to tell him of her discoveries at the belvedere and the conclusions she had drawn from them . |
| 26 | She wondered whether she could gain his respect by telling him of her d'Urberville blood . |
| 27 | At home that night she began a letter to Clare , telling him of her great love for him . |
| 28 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 29 | He was so utterly convinced of his own rightness that there was no way she could persuade him of her innocence at this moment . |
| 30 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |