Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar , and stayed there two weeks . |
| 2 | I 've called back into his mind the spells I put on him at his birth . |
| 3 | I recently discovered the answer to these questions from Willie Lamont , as I talked to him about his approach to history . |
| 4 | I sent for him to his private address as soon as I got the news but he has to get up from Winchester . ’ |
| 5 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 6 | Earlier this afternoon I spoke to him about his party 's ailing fortunes in the year since the General Election . |
| 7 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 8 | While it 's true that nobody does any work in The Possessed except delivering babies , and true also that Stepan Verkhovensky flowers into a veritable presiding genius of sloth in the guise of footling bustle , nevertheless the reader 's heart is not with Mrs Stavrogin , Stepan 's patroness , when she hisses at him on his deathbed ‘ you futile , futile , ignoble , chickenhearted , always , always futile man ’ . |
| 9 | He had then suggested she come with him to his house to help unload . |
| 10 | ‘ Naylor , ’ she turned to him with his name on her lips , oddly , his pain her pain at that moment . |
| 11 | She walked with him to his carriage , the reckless high-perch phaeton she had seen often enough outside the Fleece , his horse held now by a wizened little urchin quite blue with cold , to whom he tossed a coin . |
| 12 | She glanced from him to his wife . |
| 13 | Of course Alison was not ‘ living in ’ the house , but was often there visiting Patrick ( her help as a nurse was no longer required ) , joining Jack in his studio ( where she talked with him about his work ) , or chatting with him and Franca in the drawing room or kitchen before departing with Jack to a restaurant and taking him on to her flat for the night . |
| 14 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |
| 15 | ‘ Not a lady to keep a man waiting , ’ he murmured approvingly , and , basking in his appreciation of her promptitude , she went with him to his car and , as he set the Mercedes in motion , had time to realise that she was n't shy , for goodness ' sake . |
| 16 | She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed . |
| 17 | We talk to him in his language and we have tried to lift as much of the experience from his mind as we can so that it does n't fester , get covered over , then burst out in 10 years time and turn him into a disturbed child . |
| 18 | The Joker is a very intelligent horse and knows his ‘ covering bridle ’ which we use on him for his studwork , or his ordinary bridle when he is ridden , and behaves accordingly . |
| 19 | He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams . |
| 20 | Now he laid about him in his denunciations of England 's political leaders and institutions . |
| 21 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 22 | All he took with him on his voyage was a spare pair of shoes , a sandwich and a 1992 sports diary with a map of the world , the court heard . |
| 23 | In confusion and panic he felt behind him with his left hand for the door-handle , pushing the handle down and edging his way round the door . |