Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar , and stayed there two weeks . |
| 2 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 3 | I recently discovered the answer to these questions from Willie Lamont , as I talked to him about his approach to history . |
| 4 | I sent for him to his private address as soon as I got the news but he has to get up from Winchester . ’ |
| 5 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 6 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 7 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 8 | He also suffered from a morbid fear of castration which lingered with him throughout his life ; possessed of plenty , as he saw it , he realized how much he had to lose . |
| 9 | Frank Bishop was hit on the head , neck and body with a wooden club by two men who pounced on him outside his home in Witney yesterday . |
| 10 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 12 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 13 | He had then suggested she come with him to his house to help unload . |
| 14 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 15 | There remained a core of committed supporters who had accompanied Edward into exile or who rallied to him after his landing in Yorkshire in 1471 . |
| 16 | ‘ Naylor , ’ she turned to him with his name on her lips , oddly , his pain her pain at that moment . |
| 17 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 18 | She walked with him to his carriage , the reckless high-perch phaeton she had seen often enough outside the Fleece , his horse held now by a wizened little urchin quite blue with cold , to whom he tossed a coin . |
| 19 | She glanced from him to his wife . |
| 20 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 21 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |
| 22 | So was ‘ The Tinker 's Grace ’ , purporting to be Bunyan 's prison musings on Divine Grace , and so was Pedro of Portugal 's rapt and bizarre declaration of love , in 1356 , for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife , Iñez de Castro , who swayed beside him on his travels , leather-brown and skeletal , crowned with lace and gold circlet , hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls , her bone-fingers fantastically ringed . |
| 23 | ‘ Not a lady to keep a man waiting , ’ he murmured approvingly , and , basking in his appreciation of her promptitude , she went with him to his car and , as he set the Mercedes in motion , had time to realise that she was n't shy , for goodness ' sake . |
| 24 | She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed . |
| 25 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 26 | He glanced through the mail and stuffed the one addressed to him into his pocket without comment . |
| 27 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 28 | The Joker is a very intelligent horse and knows his ‘ covering bridle ’ which we use on him for his studwork , or his ordinary bridle when he is ridden , and behaves accordingly . |
| 29 | He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams . |
| 30 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |