Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goreng had dominated him with his will . |
| 2 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 3 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 4 | ‘ Nearly a fortnight ’ , he complained , was spent in Sydney organising his journey to the other side of the Liverpool Range — that remote and tantalising region that had eluded him on his first visit to Yarrundi because he had had to return to his wife in Hobart . |
| 5 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 6 | No sooner was Lydia 's wedding to Tobias over , than Bob Lamb had approached him for his permission to pay court to Martha , with a view to eventual marriage . |
| 7 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 8 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 9 | In the early 1930s , from his city desk at Faber and Faber , Eliot was busy paying tribute to other cities which had educated him in his way of life and to city writers who had aided his way of writing . |
| 10 | His thoughts were running north and west , up into Lochaber , the oakwoods and pinewoods at the foot of Loch Arkaig which had cradled him in his boyhood . |
| 11 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 12 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 13 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 14 | Joshua Morris had not invited him to break bread in Clungunford , Clunbury , Clunton or Clun , but Ralph Grunte had booked him for his Warwickshire Tories ' annual dinner and dance . |
| 15 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 16 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 17 | He remembered a conversation he 'd once had with his brother , who had teased him about his interest in the works of Elinor Dove . |
| 18 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 19 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 20 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 21 | Maybe , if she could have accepted him on his terms … |
| 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 | Ronnie is just glad it 's all over , and aware that his past acting career had prepared him for his ordeal . |
| 25 | But revision would not have saved him from his misunderstandings , his reluctance to think , his complete lack of biological imagination . |
| 26 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 27 | We were told that a recurrent illness had made him in his earlier days an abrasive and difficult colleague but when we knew him , the right pill had been found and the former angrily flashing eye and rasping voice of which people spoke had mellowed to a genial twinkle and an infectious chuckle . |
| 28 | Jim , who gave a lively impromptu speech after chairman , Hugh Jamieson had presented him with his award , was in typically dismissive mood about his own talents . |
| 29 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
| 30 | Until she had seen him without his clothes on — so she had told herself — Jessica had not been sure . |