Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his own [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 4 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 7 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 8 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 9 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 10 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 11 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Bind him on his own horse — it will go better under him than another . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 16 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Play him at his own game , a small voice whispered . |
| 20 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 21 | Somehow he felt that she had beaten him at his own game of keeping things on a cool level . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 24 | CUSTOMERS who spent four hours haggling with a double glazing salesman may sue after beating him at his own game . |