Example sentences of "and [verb] him [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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1 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
2 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
3 | But now , as in all good rehabilitated hellraiser stories , the only coke he touches comes from a bottle and he has a wife , Becky , who has helped him overcome the demon drink and restored him to his former hunky self . |
4 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
5 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
6 | When 13 , Mackenzie was sent to be educated at a hearing school where the teachers did not know what to do with him , and left him to his own devices a lot of the time . |
7 | George would take the credit for all Tom 's successes and blame him for his own failures . |