Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his word " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rose did not take him at his word . |
| 2 | She would take him at his word . |
| 3 | The government should take him at his word . |
| 4 | One of them , Machik , ‘ manifested great inventiveness , cunning and insidiousness in his struggle against the Russian authorities , and the voevody could not take him at his word ’ . |
| 5 | He seemed to think she should simply take him at his word . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's power enough , ’ agreed Watt , taking him at his word . |
| 7 | I took him at his word . |
| 8 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 9 | The princes thought this handsomely said and took him at his word . |
| 10 | My son took him at his word and went into travel for three years . |
| 11 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 12 | She drew back from him and took him at his word . |
| 13 | The villagers , however , took him at his word , only too willing to dump their scruffy-arsed offspring on him between the hours of ten and five . |
| 14 | So I 'll hold him to his word . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd said it once too often , and this time she 'd taken him at his word . |
| 16 | I take him at his word , for I can not go to see for myself , not being male . |