Example sentences of "[prep] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without another word he turned and strode towards the escalator , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him with his heavy case . |
| 2 | Really she 's after him for his money . ’ |
| 3 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 4 | The tradition was carried on after him by his son , Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823–86 ) , and Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 — 1921 ) . |
| 5 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 6 | He was very frightened of the spirits and they ran after him in his dreams . |
| 7 | She sat opposite him in his office with the door firmly closed . |
| 8 | Cowslip , coming up near-by , turned towards him with his unnatural smile . |
| 9 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 10 | The radiance burned from it as it fell ; and the master-bowman , somewhere below him with his men , bellowed : ‘ Loose ! ’ |
| 11 | " I really am fond of him despite his … despite everything . " |
| 12 | He also thought of him as his father . |
| 13 | Fonda was rocketed to stardom , and posters of him astride his bike were quickly outselling star portraits of Brando , Newman and McQueen . |
| 14 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |
| 15 | His eyes glaze over as he focuses on the photograph of him with his beloved — Illona Staller , better known as Cicciolina , the Italian porn star turned politician who recently made headlines by offering to let Saddam Hussein ‘ rape ’ her if he freed the hostages being held in the Middle East . |
| 16 | There is a fine monumental effigy of him with his first wife in the church in Charlton , where he was buried 25 July 1598 . |
| 17 | He was very angry , and he hit the chair in front of him with his hand . |
| 18 | In front of him on his desk were disposed various objects , an elegant and masterly still life to complement the strong head and the ambivalent natural growths . |
| 19 | These were set out facing the way the explorer had gone so as to ensure a good view of him on his return . |
| 20 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 21 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 22 | Oliver Hill , its architect , was a chameleon who could perform miracles and build in whatever style was asked of him by his upper-class clients , some of whom were startlingly ‘ progressive ’ . |
| 23 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 24 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 25 | Nigel was fond enough of him in his way , but he did n't want him coming home too soon . |
| 26 | When police showed staff at Tesco 's a security video of the con-man , the girl told them : ‘ I 've got a photo of him in his Union Jack underpants . ’ |
| 27 | The magazine had first taken note of him in his Student whizz-kid incarnation , when Branson had appeared in a BBC documentary entitled Men of the Future . |
| 28 | It was in this connection that Sir John Ross [ q.v. ] speaks of him in his Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez ( vol ii , 1838 , p. 72 ) : ‘ Captain , afterwards Admiral , William Mitchell , an officer who had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by his good conduct , after having been flogged round the fleet for desertion . ’ |
| 29 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 30 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |