Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] him [adj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |
| 2 | Blessed with a constituency which returned him unopposed throughout his career in the Commons , and a tenantry which presented him at his wedding with a two-foot high gold cup , it was natural that he should suppose the keystone of the political arch to be a benevolent aristocracy . |
| 3 | The Finn touched the ball inside to Jess who controlled it and turned in a blur of movement which took him clear of his cover and a sweetly struck shot hummed past Andy Rhodes . |
| 4 | Hades also possessed a magical helmet which rendered him invisible during his travels on earth . |
| 5 | The mullah made a drink from the berries which kept him awake throughout his prayers , and so began the tradition of coffee drinking . |
| 6 | In 1922 he left his Worcester parish to run the church of St Edmund King and Martyr in Lombard Street in the City of London , a non-parochial cure , which left him free for his major postwar work as ‘ messenger ’ of the Industrial Christian Fellowship , which had come into being in 1920 as a result of the amalgamation of the Christian Social Union and the Navvy Mission Society . |