Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] him [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 2 | It is said that , before he died , St Magnus asked his executioner to kill him by an axe stroke to the head , rather than suffer decapitation : ‘ For it is not seemly to behead chiefs like thieves . ’ |
| 3 | His father sent him after an owd man somewhere to come hoom ; and he had an owd pony . |
| 4 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 5 | His fascination leads him to an agency which administers mental implants , so that he can have the vicarious experience of interplanetary travel injected into his memory . |