Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sharp hiss of an angry breath drawn through clenched teeth stopped him in his tracks . |
| 2 | Quiet and modest in manner , speaking with an occasional stutter , his initiative , absolute reliability and willingness to help in the humblest duties endeared him to his many friends , not only in the literary world . |
| 3 | One possibility is that he had already begun to campaign in western Saxon territory and that additional troops joined him from his supporters there . |
| 4 | But Burton 's radicalism was soon overtaken by the inevitable favours bought him by his talents . |
| 5 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 6 | Rough hands gripped him by his crotch and the back of his neck , holding him aloft like a defenceless struggling insect tipped on to its back . |
| 7 | JILTED comedian Jim Davidson stormed off stage after rowdy fans taunted him about his marriage split . |
| 8 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 9 | All gossip about the failures of parochial clergy nourished him in his downtrodden state . |
| 10 | Thoughts of butchers ' knives and bloodied axes galvanized the boy into frantic action , but he had no sooner broken into a sprint along the alley than the sound of his own footsteps stopped him in his tracks . |
| 11 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |