Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 2 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 3 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 4 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 5 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 6 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 7 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 8 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |
| 9 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 10 | One officer who had worked with him during his short stay in the force laughingly told colleagues that this ‘ college man ’ definitely had one arrest — because he would willingly recall details of his big moment for anyone who was prepared to listen . |
| 11 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 12 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 13 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 14 | Yet such evidence as there is suggests that his love for his wife had been deepened by the way she had stood by him during his years in prison . |