Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 2 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And Christopher went , he went down the slide we , we just left him on his own . |
| 5 | Nor is he happy for his skills to be compared with those of a stand-up comic despite his highly persuasive double act with Ken Dodd , who later presented him with his own tickling stick . |
| 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 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 9 | On private land , the State made the pomeshchik responsible for the collection of taxes from his serfs and then left him to his own devices . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |