Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him of his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert 's expression had obviously convinced him of his innocence . |
| 2 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 3 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 4 | When he discovers that Mary helps people , collects for Biafra and has protested against the Vietnam War , he is not happy because she suddenly reminds him of his mother . |
| 5 | His voice was slurred and she wondered just how many brandies he had had tonight to cure him of his frustration . |
| 6 | It should also inform him of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 7 | From an early age , Sara had sensed that she irritated him , by her presence , by the fact that she was there to remind him of his wife 's earlier marriage . |