Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy to convince him of his worthlessness-to make him believe he was capable of such an act . |
| 2 | If you ask me , he 's got some damn notion in his head that it will be hard to rid him of . ’ |
| 3 | It 's too late to remind him of what is long gone . ’ |
| 4 | If he forgot it , some well-meaning or malicious busybody would be sure to remind him of it . |
| 5 | However , I do not believe that I will be able to disabuse him of his beliefs . |
| 6 | What if , by her doing nothing , they were able to convince him of her treachery and turn him against her for ever ? |
| 7 | She decided she was n't reluctant to remind him of Olinda 's name in any way , shape or form . |
| 8 | Pickin claimed that the relevant provision ( s. 18 ) of the 1968 Act was invalid and ineffective to deprive him of his title , as Parliament had been misled by the Board to obtain the passage of the Act . |
| 9 | If someone is doubting the resurrection , it is irrelevant to assure him of Christ 's promise never to leave him — Christ never was with him if he has not risen . |
| 10 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | It was , however , Lord Denning M.R. himself in Schmit v. Secretary of State for Home Affairs , who stated that while natural justice could apply to an administrative act , it would depend upon whether the individual had some right , interest , or legitimate expectation such that it would not be fair to deprive him of it , without a hearing . |
| 13 | However , that knowledge was not sufficient to rid him of the problem , so we continued the treatment by using hypnotherapy . |