Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] his " in BNC.

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1 God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose .
2 It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself .
3 An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be .
4 Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ?
5 Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ?
6 Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years .
7 Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary .
8 ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’
9 He also thought of him as his father .
10 They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain .
11 Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest .
12 My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing .
13 It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ .
14 No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son .
15 My husband had many friends there and they sometimes called on him for his help and advice .
16 The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero .
17 In May 1990 he suffered a broken leg when a car was allegedly driven into him near his home in Provanmill where he lived with his wife Rita , son Billy , 25 , and Arthur jun 's daughter Amanda , 13 , in converted council houses which have been nicknamed locally ‘ Southfork ’ .
18 The primary source for ‘ Kubla Khan ’ is the book Purchas his Pilgrimage ( 1614 ) which Coleridge had evidently brought with him on his Culbone visit — borrowed perhaps from the bookroom or from the well stocked library at Alfoxden — and which describes how ‘ In Xanada did Cublai Can build a stately Pallace . ’
19 A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art .
20 Knowing her husband , if he could be led to believe that the royal castle of Berwick might be alienated from the crown and actually given to him for his services , he would be the more apt to accede to the arrangement , being a man of acquisitive mind .
21 He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues .
22 Instead , he allowed the old man to usher him along and occasionally jab at him with his stick .
23 It had never happened to him in his life before .
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