Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] him of [pron] " in BNC.

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1 An ostler took the cavalryman 's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword .
2 Incognito , he worked as a ferryman and lived in Biddick boat-house for over twenty years , when a terrible flood robbed him of his possessions and his proof of identification .
3 THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war .
4 Her curious visage reminded him of something but he could not think what .
5 Their first approach , late at night in his hotel room , came a week after he had received his sister 's long and excited letter telling him of her marriage .
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