Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him about his temporary drinking problem . |
| 2 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 3 | Dury , however , is a theatrical voice to be taken rather more seriously , as I discovered when I met him in his current lodgings , adjacent to the Swan Theatre . |
| 4 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 5 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 6 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 7 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 8 | I loved him for his special attention towards me ; he made me feel important — if only to him . |
| 9 | I complimented him on his artistic prowess as a surgeon ; he smiled . |
| 10 | Once he was popping happily round a spooky 3′6″ course with tyres , polythene bags and barrels as fillers , I took him to his first indoor showjumping competition . |
| 11 | ‘ I put him in his early fifties , ’ said the Archdeacon judiciously . |
| 12 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 13 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 14 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 15 | Rachel got to her feet , pen and notepad in hand , forcing herself to keep her disintegrating professional cool as she followed him into his luxurious modern office overlooking the city . |
| 16 | Taxi driver Dermot Smith stabbed his wife Norma , 45 , four times after she taunted him about his sexual performance compared to her lover . |
| 17 | Aline said , ‘ Maybe you reminded him of his long-lost youth . ’ |
| 18 | She nursed him through his final illness , until his death 24 July 1971 at his home in Waterford , Hertfordshire . |
| 19 | Against her creamy paleness his hand was a thin brown intruder , and he knew there were times when she despised him for his swarthy colouring . |
| 20 | She was more than halfway through the set before she managed to screw up enough courage to glance down at Adam 's table , and her heart turned to cold stone as she spotted him in his usual seat , his dark eyes staring at her with their disturbing lack of expression . |
| 21 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 22 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 23 | They presented him with his glittering prize — a gold and diamond lapel pin — at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham . |
| 24 | would like to thank managers and staff at the branch for the support they gave him during his recent illness . |
| 25 | They forced him across the pitch they forced him onto his right-hand side Collimore which is n't his best side and they 've managed t they 've managed to frustrate him at his shooting at a distance . |
| 26 | He hit him with his clenched fist with every bit of strength in him . |
| 27 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 28 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 29 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 30 | He bethought him of his little key and held it up bravely before him , and it put out a little sparkling light that illumined a step at a time , silvery-pale . |