Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him of his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis had written to Uncle Hilbert and told him of his intention to name his son after him , inviting him to be the child 's godfather . |
| 2 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 3 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 4 | Immediately after the assessment interview the therapist telephoned their general practitioner , and informed him of his assessment and proposed management . |
| 5 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 6 | On the empress 's death in 1796 , her successor Paul I dismissed Cameron from his post at Tsarskoe Selo , and deprived him of his house there . |
| 7 | In his Introduction , Dodd reminded his readers that if a person owed only forty shillings , an extortionate litigious creditor could immediately obtain a writ , often by a false malicious oath , and deprive him of his liberty . |
| 8 | At 11.30 a.m. his fellow director summoned him , and reminded him of his resignation . |
| 9 | Spurred by a fleeting but unmistakable echo of Thetis 's music , interpolated in its original key as if to remind him of his mother 's counsel , and by the groaning shades of his dead countrymen , he sets forth to exact vengeance for the Trojan victory ( ex.10 ) . |
| 10 | His about-face once in office pleased economists , but robbed him of his mandate : the voters no longer believed he was the man they had elected . |