Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them rounded on him , grabbed him by the arm , but only asked him for his name and address . ’ |
| 2 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 3 | He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird . |
| 4 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 5 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 6 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 7 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 8 | I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication — and envied his super brain-power . |
| 9 | Sir John died in Tooting 5 June 1670 and was buried in the old church ; his will shows a debt due from the tsar and an amount still owed him for his allowance as ambassador . |
| 10 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 11 | His talents and character perfectly qualified him for his role and his motives expressed ‘ an awful sense of his duty as a Christian ’ . |
| 12 | They drank for a moment before Jordan returned to what really worried him about his boss 's handling of the case . |
| 13 | Summoned before the Protector , Simpson boldly accused him to his face of treason , for taking the government upon himself . |
| 14 | She resisted the temptation to do as Paul suggested and instead made him pot after pot of black coffee and then drove him to his shop in Bridgetown . |
| 15 | She virtually shoved him towards his car . |
| 16 | Cowley took the phone from Roz Hatch as she picked it up and passed it to him , then left him to his privacy . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , he was thankful to God that in all his life he was never overcome by depression , and that , despite his almost continual pain , it never seriously hindered him in his work , his study or his preaching . |
| 18 | Despite the happy family photos that appeared in the fan magazines , childhood days were miserable days for Joe who said that his dad never held him in his lap and read him stories or took him to ball games . |