Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 2 | Several undergraduates who knew him from his Trinity days often came to see him and wrote to him especially at Christmas . |
| 3 | On this same trip he also called in on Tersteeg — who sowerscomplimented him on his progress — and on another painter , de Bock . |
| 4 | Those who remembered him with his barrow recalled a cheerful , toothy smile , an infectious , confidence-inspiring laugh . |
| 5 | It was a novel experience for Preston , going out with somebody who wanted him for his body . |
| 6 | It 's about a witch who chased him on his mare . |
| 7 | And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland . |
| 8 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 9 | He trusted the captains of his ships , he trusted his trading partners in the East , in the Indian Ocean , over the Atlantic , around the African coast ; his clerks , his associates in Liverpool , his bank , his builders , his carpenters , those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes — Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust . |