Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 2 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 3 | Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely . |
| 4 | Sigmar divided his land between the allied chiefs who had helped him during his many wars . |
| 5 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 6 | He 'd organised this expedition to Westminster to present the Prime Minister with his trusty iceaxe , which had helped him in his arctic endeaveours . |
| 7 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 8 | German idealism was born out of a rejection of British empiricism : Immanuel Kant famously declared that it was David Hume who had woken him from his dogmatic slumbers . |
| 9 | The tall man fixed him with his cold eyes . |
| 10 | During their courtship Diana had asked him about his previous girlfriends . |