Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] his [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 2 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 3 | But , although he beat her , she refused to help him with his evil plan . |
| 4 | The French still use the word ‘ negre ’ for a ghost-writer because Dumas quite openly used other authors to help him with his colossal output . |
| 5 | Prost , who claimed his 12th pole in 13 races this year , admitted he did not expect any special team orders to help him to his 52nd career victory . |
| 6 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 7 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 8 | He came directly to the parlour shared by Astorre , John and Tobie , followed by servants attempting to rid him of his wet cloak . |
| 9 | In his heart Gaveston knew that young Edward quite liked the clerk ; admired the man 's fidelity and unwillingness to criticise him to his terrible father . |
| 10 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 11 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 12 | Although he immediately became favourite to succeed Roh as President when his term of office expired in February 1993 , the delicate factional structure of the DLP meant that Roh was reluctant to endorse him as his chosen successor . |
| 13 | During the next few days I saw a lot of ‘ Deemy ’ and it was he who suggested that Major Hal could clear the decks for me to accompany him on his next flight back to Siberia . |
| 14 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 15 | ‘ Certainly , Doctor , if you say so , ’ she replied sweetly , containing the urge to crown him for his patronising ignorance . |
| 16 | Comfort looked at him , Surprised to see him without his mocking smile , and then she shrugged . |
| 17 | I would like to thank him for his considerable contribution to the company 's success over the last three years . |
| 18 | A great storm blew up as he approached the island , as if the elements themselves were trying to drive him from his chosen path . |
| 19 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |
| 20 | ‘ I used to call him by his real name Coy Luther and he got real mad . ’ |
| 21 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 22 | Indeed , Leonard 's main recollection of his father lies in that style , rather than more personal attributes or memories , and he is wont to describe him with his top hat and gloves , his cane and spats , and miniature service medals . |
| 23 | Even when Liverpool won the FA Cup in May to present him with his first trophy , Kenny Dalglish still held a significant place in the hearts of the Kop . |
| 24 | The Spirit of the Lord , the ruach adonai passes to David to equip him for his princely service . |
| 25 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 26 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 27 | It was rumoured that Pott would not allow the bearers to take him to his own hospital , St. Bartholomew 's , believing he would fare better elsewhere . |
| 28 | That 's what I 'm saying , right , now , what I 'm saying is there 's a , that , that , is , there 's , there 's , there 's , there 's things , there 's things , there 's guides to be able to do that , right , and the guide is there 's certain things you do and certain things you do n't do , because what you do basically is that you close him on his final objection which is what you 're just saying you did , right , but you close him on his final objection , how did you manage to close him on his final objection ? |
| 29 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 30 | The Baskerville lawyers are trying to contact him to tell him about his good fortune . |