Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 2 | But Mr Browning had told police his route took him via the M4 , over the Severn Bridge , and not by the more direct route of the M50 . |
| 3 | His route took him past the City of Dreams . |
| 4 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 5 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 6 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 7 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 8 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 9 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 10 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 11 | He said he needed me to pretend to be his girlfriend to protect him from the bimbos . ’ |
| 12 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 13 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 14 | On May 8 Bush reiterated his faith in Quayle , criticizing the press for " pounding on him when he 's doing a first class job " , and repeating his determination to retain him as the Republican Party 's 1992 nominee for Vice-President . |
| 15 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 16 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 17 | This shows that when Churchill first asked his officials to brief him on the subject , R. G. Hawtrey replied that public works would indeed increase employment , provided they were linked to an expansion of credit . |
| 18 | General Elio offered the support of his troops to maintain him in the fullness of his rights ; at the same time the Manifesto of the Persians , signed by 96 ‘ servile ’ deputies , reached the king at Valencia . |
| 19 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 20 | One was a middle-aged man , rather corpulent , who sent a message into the depths behind his recess which finally produced an abashed female servant : and one was a spare man in young middle age who had his wife helping him in the shop . |
| 21 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 22 | Now suffering is a vast and many-sided fact of Crime and Punishment , as of all mature Dostoevsky — larger than the ‘ loose end ’ idea of The Drunks which produced Marmeladov the marmeladey wallower in abasement and humiliation , the man who seeks suffering and finds it ( and so finds satisfaction too ) at the bottom of his vodka jug , who screams ‘ I 'm loving this ! ’ when his wife pulls him across the room by his hair ; and larger than the ‘ out of the practical swim ’ idea of ‘ A Confession ’ from which emerges the murderer , the man with something to confess , who does n't seek suffering but learns , though only in the Epilogue , to accept it . |
| 23 | BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’ |
| 24 | He has had a passion for buses and coaches ever since childhood when his father took him to the Darlington bus depot where he still works as a driver . |
| 25 | A year later his father followed him to the grave . |
| 26 | The cleanness of his musicianship marks him as the Apollo of the new singing school . |
| 27 | His friends hail him as the last great artist of the 20th century . |
| 28 | His diffidence blinded him to the truth that the one book was already influential in modern thinking . |
| 29 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 30 | How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead . |