Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The research Jarvis embarked on for his book took him into the lower level concourse at Bond Street . |
| 32 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 33 | In a negligence suit brought against him Mr Hill wanted to sue his employer to indemnify him for the damages he had to pay out to Mr Gregory . |
| 34 | His way took him past the local police station . |
| 35 | Isambard 's hand on his shoulder brought him to the bench at the end of the room , where a film of stone-dust coated the floor , and several fragments of carvings and half-cut blocks of stone lay pushed together against the wall , as though discarded long ago . |
| 36 | His misery drove him to the theatre again , uselessly ; he had used up Dinah 's tickets , and was told at the box office that all seats were sold out . |
| 37 | Eventually , his wanderings led him to the ornate frontage of a steam-house . |
| 38 | Incredibly , fourteen months later , in 1981 , his ego goaded him to the Bahamas and another fight , the fat jellied on his middle , his hand-speed sighing and wheezing like a busted old fan ; tropic rot on the trade winds . |
| 39 | A BABY boy had an astonishing escape when his mother dropped him from the balcony of a ninth-floor flat . |
| 40 | When he got home , his mother rushed him to the Royal Infirmary , wherein he was kept for two days . |
| 41 | The child wo n't get out of bed when his mother calls him in the morning : so he misses the school bus , is late for school and is punished by his headteacher . |
| 42 | When he was fifteen his mother told him about the hanging . |
| 43 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 44 | His mother met him at the back door . |
| 45 | Sometimes his mother chased him through the apartment , striking at him while he dodged and ducked , crying , ‘ Look out Mom , look out now ! |
| 46 | The milky-eyed man was back on his feet , the zeal of his speech fetching him off the ground in little hops and leaps . |
| 47 | His family visited him in the cells before leving the court . |
| 48 | Next came the rinsing , then the part he liked best of all … standing naked before the warm fire , while his mammy dried him with the soft towel that wrapped round him like a cloak . |
| 49 | An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street . |
| 50 | His admirers applaud him as the ‘ people 's lawyer ’ , the first solicitor in Britain to realize that victims of disasters have more chance of success if they stand and fight collectively . |
| 51 | He reached for Freddy , and with what seemed no more than a flick of his wrist pitched him across the foyer . |