Example sentences of "[verb] him of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 2 | Exhaustion strips him of his senses . |
| 3 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 4 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 5 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 6 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 7 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 8 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 9 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 10 | These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments . |
| 11 | The Greek with the wooden leg , whose machinations , he sometimes felt , ran as a dark undercurrent below all his own devices , robbing him of his belief in his will . |
| 12 | Police are on the lookout for two youths who viciously attacked a 13-year-old Middlesbrough schoolboy at the Mandale picnic area , robbing him of his wristwatch . |
| 13 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 14 | It assured him of his right to be here and he picked it up and put it in his jacket pocket before walking through into the hall with its white doors leading to the reception rooms . |
| 15 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 16 | Urquhart knew him ; and falling into talk Paul told him of his predicament . |
| 17 | Lewis had written to Uncle Hilbert and told him of his intention to name his son after him , inviting him to be the child 's godfather . |
| 18 | He told him of his experience and was interested to know that the phenomenon is by no means unknown and the other went on to relate another incident involving footsteps that he heard outside the office , but when he opened the door to investigate no one was there . |
| 19 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 20 | Mr Litherland , Labour MP for Manchester Central , said he had drawn attention to the security flaw after a building worker told him of his concern while working at the court building . |
| 21 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 22 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 23 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 24 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 25 | Immediately after the assessment interview the therapist telephoned their general practitioner , and informed him of his assessment and proposed management . |
| 26 | After three or four casual meetings with the critic Mervyn Levy , Minton took him on one side at the Chelsea Arts Club and informed him of his homosexuality , not wishing to implicate Levy unwittingly with a man who , from a certain point of view , was beyond the pale . |
| 27 | Then , on went the lights followed by another scream from ‘ Lousy Lou ’ — someone had relieved him of his tins as well . |
| 28 | This was in order to ‘ convince him of his misery and the necessity of true repentance and reformation ’ . |
| 29 | Somebody shot the undertaker while he sat indoors in his shirt sleeves , stripped him of his remaining clothing and pushed him in the sea at the sewage outfall at or near high water . |
| 30 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |