Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 2 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 3 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 4 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 5 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 6 | Cowslip , coming up near-by , turned towards him with his unnatural smile . |
| 7 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 8 | I sent for him to his private address as soon as I got the news but he has to get up from Winchester . ’ |
| 9 | In confusion and panic he felt behind him with his left hand for the door-handle , pushing the handle down and edging his way round the door . |
| 10 | At the peak of the agitation more than 12,000 troops were stationed in the disturbed regions of the Midlands and the North — more soldiers than Wellington took with him on his first expedition to Portugal in 1808 in the Peninsular War . |
| 11 | He had liked the way she laughed at him in his old man 's vice . |
| 12 | Of course it 's not actually coffin-shaped , but that 's how Tony Hicks of the Hollies , who used an original Phantom XII on a number of the band 's hits ( including Look Through Any Window and I Ca n't Let Go ) referred to the guitar when I spoke to him about his original guitar . |
| 13 | The traffic he had cut into blared at him for his boorish behaviour . |
| 14 | And once when I was very little I sat with him on his horse-drawn dray at the station with him in his bowler hat . |
| 15 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |