Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't chase her after reading the letter she had left for him , politely thanking him for his hospitality and saying she was returning to Palma to complete her work before returning to England . |
| 2 | One of them rounded on him , grabbed him by the arm , but only asked him for his name and address . ’ |
| 3 | She 's taking advantage of him , she only wants him for his money . |
| 4 | They also display all the features of a volcanicity that lasted late enough to terrify Palaeolithic man and perhaps to provide him with his fire . |
| 5 | She longed to get near him , and when he was quite drunk Simone would gently steer him to his room and help him get to bed . |
| 6 | Robert 's expression had obviously convinced him of his innocence . |
| 7 | I thought and think that war is an evil abominable thing which gets man no further and only lowers him in his search after truth . |
| 8 | Coleen , however , although she loved Mr Cubbage , wanted time to think things over and would gently scold him for his haste . |
| 9 | The child 's own feelings were split between mortification at a christening that doomed him to live out for good a pun that he could already see to be gruesome and pride that his father had cared for him enough to embed him into his act by the very roots of his name . |
| 10 | She was now only a step away from her target , so she was n't far from getting to know him well enough to question him about his allegiance — just as long as she could keep his escort sweet , which would probably mean more bondage if that was the only way he could get his nuts off . |
| 11 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 12 | He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird . |
| 13 | It was not until two o'clock therefore that they became anxious enough to call him on his car telephone — only to find it had been switched off . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Has he any idea , she was wondering , that that woman is only marrying him for his money ? |
| 18 | ‘ Better get him on his way I s'pose , ’ he grunted , as he ducked under the bar flap . |
| 19 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 20 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 21 | At the same time , his chief object of popular musical study , the Tin Pan Alley hit , was governed to some extent by those criteria , thus confirming him in his approach , and discouraging any consideration of possible new criteria . |
| 22 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 23 | just leave him with his alarm on |
| 24 | His voice was slurred and she wondered just how many brandies he had had tonight to cure him of his frustration . |
| 25 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 26 | And erm I remember my father now even now n although I was only three I can still remember him in his uniform coming home on leave . |
| 27 | His wife Ellen wrote to us with this smashing picture and told us that because Russell works so much she only ever sees him in his overall or a track suit . |
| 28 | I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication — and envied his super brain-power . |
| 29 | Sir John died in Tooting 5 June 1670 and was buried in the old church ; his will shows a debt due from the tsar and an amount still owed him for his allowance as ambassador . |
| 30 | He told me there was one thing which had deeply troubled him throughout his life , and that was refusing to acknowledge you when you were in trouble . |