Example sentences of "[verb] him of [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Lewis and Pound hoped that the Nobel would free him of that cautiousness which had smoothed his ascent . |
| 2 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 3 | In Shylock 's trial against Antonio , having preached towards Shylock for mercy in line 180 ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ , she promptly forgets to show any mercy towards Shylock , stripping him of all his wealth , possessions and even religion . |
| 4 | Soon , however , he was confronted with the ‘ actualities of war ’ during a visit to a casualty hospital , and the bullet-holed limbs and suffering he witnessed there helped purge him of such studied hauteur . |
| 5 | I decided not to inform him of this . |
| 6 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 7 | Most of the places he saw were uninhabitable , or required a permit from the Office of Works to make them less so , but a friend of John Hayward told him of some rooms in Carlyle Mansions , a Victorian apartment building along the Chelsea Embankment which looks out over the Thames . |
| 8 | These deliberate modernities should clear him of any charge of merely insulated ‘ ivory tower ’ escapism . |
| 9 | He should neither do damage to Mr. Jones , nor be slow in warning him of any impending danger ; fornication , marriage , gambling and the haunting of taverns or playhouses was strictly proscribed , and generally a monastic restraint was to be observed in all things . |
| 10 | Marcus was with him , his second sense acting as well as ever , warning him of any storm-troopers . |
| 11 | The defendant may apply for directions as to whether any third person with a competing claim should be joined and if that third person fails to appear on such a successful application the court may deprive him of any right of action against the defendant . |
| 12 | For , whatever else , she would not marry Havvie Blaine now , and she would lose no time in informing him of that fact . |
| 13 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 14 | The War had emptied him ; stripped him of all illusions . |
| 15 | I 'm quite sure he will understand if you notify him of this . |
| 16 | Even marriage could not cure him of all his anxieties , and it is salutary to remember that , in some situations , he was as frightened of other people as they were of him : he often seemed shy and hesitant in conversation still . |
| 17 | A trip to Tory Wandsworth would cure him of this delusion . |
| 18 | When Molly joined him he would ask hopefully if she were feeling tired or , even perhaps more hopefully , as though it relieved him of all responsibility , if she had the curse . |
| 19 | ‘ You could at least assure him of that , ’ she snapped . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | but you 've got to curb him of that , I said make matters I said Dan get yourself down here now I said did either of you kick Danny ? |
| 22 | Listening once to him on the Bench I recalled an occasion when the aged and formidable boys ' maid who looked after our rooms had stood with arms akimbo accusing him of some peccadillo , and ended her tirade : " Mr Phillimore , do n't you stand there lying like Ananias ! " |
| 23 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 24 | Even Frank Sinatra said that Darin would be his successor — he had the same tremendous phrasing — although death cheated him of that . |
| 25 | Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students ; he showed him the terrible , the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to , or change it . |
| 26 | There had to be something she could say , something sharp and snappy , tailor-made to disabuse him of that idea , but was n't it just typical that she could n't for the life of her think what it was ? |
| 27 | It 's pointed teeth remind him of some giant cheese grater with a mind of it 's own , face smiling ready to strike . |
| 28 | But it all nearly went horribly wrong as Benn cursed the ‘ scumbags ’ who tried to rob him of this title . |
| 29 | In a desperate appeal to his son 's conscience he reminded him of all his own personal sacrifices for the furtherance of his son 's career . |
| 30 | That small part of the Doctor 's character that allowed for scepticism reminded him of all the times such naivety had landed him in trouble before . |