Example sentences of "'s [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 2 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 3 | He was amused by Claire 's attempts to introduce him to attractive women . |
| 4 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 5 | On the handling of the union 's finances , Wilson 's enemies attacked him with equal vituperation . |
| 6 | It has now been decided to write to Rangers asking for their views on statements attributed to the three men since Ferguson 's club dropped him for disciplinary reasons , after which it came to light that Murray had spoken to United 's manager/chairman , Jim Mclean , about buying the Scotland internationalist . |
| 7 | Wally Smott 's mediocrity raised him above many of the managers who guided the club over the years , but Athletico reserved a bottom six position from 1951 to 1955 and Ken Mentle 's dream of League football became a nightmare . |
| 8 | If the reader 's research carries him beyond familiar legal fields into a large general library , he will find E.J. Dingwall 's How to Use a Large Library a useful guide . |
| 9 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 10 | Here , Davie pays a handsome compliment to one fellow critic by implying that the best of his prose can stand comparison with an eighteenth-century writer 's ‘ sharp and exact delineations of what in one poet 's work distinguishes him from all others ’ . |
| 11 | Blair 's job took him to troutless Humberside , but after two years , good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire . |
| 12 | Houghton 's wife reported him to naval security for being in possession of large sums of cash . |
| 13 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 14 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 15 | Edberg 's victory lifted him over American Jim Courier to the top of the world rankings . |
| 16 | Prost 's victory lifted him to 47 points at the head of the drivers ' championship while Brazilian Ayrton Senna , the McLaren driver who was forced to retire after running second until the closing laps , remains second in the title race with 42 points . |
| 17 | To his delight , Davis 's secretary informed him in clipped tones that : ‘ Mr Davis has been called out urgently and will not be back in the office until Friday . ’ |
| 18 | The kung fu practitioner uses his opponent 's strength to aid him in this task . |
| 19 | After a parliamentary investigation 's report named him on 3 February , Grenoble 's chief prosecutor called off an anti-Mafia investigation , saying the release of the report had wasted months of work by alerting Pagano that he was under suspicion . |
| 20 | Mr Christopher 's trip took him to six Arab countries , Jordan , Egypt , Syria , Saudi Arabia , Kuwait and Lebanon , and Israel . |
| 21 | From 1924 my father intended to write a major work about his friend and that is why he had asked Modigliani 's mother to supply him with all possible information about his childhood and adolescence . |