Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his own [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 2 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 3 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 4 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 5 | I lead a life unassociated with the physical labours that are the proper countryman 's contribution to his surroundings and which integrate him with his own creations . |
| 6 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 7 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 8 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 9 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 10 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 11 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 12 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 13 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 14 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 15 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 16 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 17 | Though Chris is the play 's voice of conscience , he is , ultimately , a rather quavery one : Miller never confronts him with his own reluctance to grow up , his willing collaboration with a domineering father and a mother who ignores him to worship her dead son . |
| 18 | ‘ Bind him on his own horse — it will go better under him than another . |
| 19 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |
| 20 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 21 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 22 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 23 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 24 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 25 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 26 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 27 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 28 | It was rumoured that Pott would not allow the bearers to take him to his own hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , believing he would fare better elsewhere . |
| 29 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 30 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |