Example sentences of "[vb past] him of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2–10–1905 They discussed the report of the Synod Committee and were dissatisfied , the report being " a misrepresentation of the state of the congregation " and expressed their sympathy with Rev. Peter Stewart and assured him of their full confidence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She told him of her unhappiness , but she knew that , because of his love of the house , it would be difficult to convince him to move . |
| 4 | I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan . |
| 5 | In turn , she told him of her life under Benedicta 's wing , making him laugh when she related her earlier antics and gave creditable impersonations of the good Sisters . |
| 6 | She told him of her suspicions . |
| 7 | If she 'd taken her courage in both hands , and told him of her true feelings , they might have had a chance to work something out . |
| 8 | Next day , Gardiner and Foxe , pressed by the King for their advice as to how to end his long and tedious suit , told him of their conversation with Cranmer . |
| 9 | Lunching with Lord Dynevor , I told him of my settled feeling that I am playing in the final of the FA Cup , that there are three minutes to go and that my team is 0-4 down . |
| 10 | I asked him from which part of that county he came and when he said Preston , I told him of my own connections and was amazed to find that his parents had kept the shop in St. Paul 's Road where I had gone to buy sweets in 1920 . |
| 11 | I also told him of my affection for you and that I could n't injure you by marrying you without love . |
| 12 | I told him of my past life in the village , and my expectations . |
| 13 | I told him of my discovery . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Urquhart knew him ; and falling into talk Paul told him of his predicament . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was from Minya , and we told him of our stay in the town . |
| 21 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 22 | What would he say when — if ! — Lady Merchiston informed him of her plan to make him marry her companion ? |
| 23 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 24 | Immediately after the assessment interview the therapist telephoned their general practitioner , and informed him of his assessment and proposed management . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We can assume that his scepticism extended to his belief in the efficacy of non-violence because he notes that reading Tolstoy influenced him greatly and cured him of his scepticism making him a believer again in ahi sā . |
| 29 | Faced with the defenceless young man asking for mercy , the blacksmith could not kill him , so he relieved him of his sword and took him prisoner . |
| 30 | An ostler took the cavalryman 's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword . |