Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My heart , to love him ; my will , to do his will , my mind , to glorify him ; my tongue , to speak to him and of him ; my eyes to see him in all things ; my hands to bring whatever they touch to him ; my all only to be a real ‘ all ’ : because it is joined to him . |
| 2 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 3 | ‘ My men found him in the garden , not in the house . |
| 4 | But he had blocked all her attempts to anoint him with love and sympathy . |
| 5 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 6 | She felt his staff tremble , and she sucked with her lips to milk him with the expertise of a milkmaid . |
| 7 | And we would have seen how her eyes followed him to the door . |
| 8 | Her eyes beseeched him for the truth . |
| 9 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 10 | His team-mates Andre Agassi , Pete Sampras and John McEnroe rushed on court and lifted him on to their shoulders to carry him to the sidelines . |
| 11 | She struggled to her feet to see him to the door . |
| 12 | In August 1717 Alberoni began trying to persuade Charles XII of Sweden and Czar peter the Great of Russia to sink their differences in return for a present of £100,000 from the Pretender , to pay for their armies to restore him to his throne . |
| 13 | Charles dropped immediately into a deep sleep where lumbering Thurber cartoon figures with guns in their hands chased him through a landscape of pastel green , dotted with red flowers . |
| 14 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 15 | Stevenson was also sentenced for offences which magistrates convicted him of in February this year . |
| 16 | Once a virtuous king , whose subjects hailed him as a god , he was killed by his jealous brother Seth . |
| 17 | Hayling in turn was delighted to meet a man whose friends described him as a ‘ non-conformist ’ compared with most City types , and one who had strong views about the way City investment was dominated by political advantage . |
| 18 | Then , just before the accident , he had met a girl whose looks reminded him of Diana . |
| 19 | It would be even more uncomfortable to associate with a character like that than to feel at home with our previous assessment , the hard man whose admirers compared him to a stone . |
| 20 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 21 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 22 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 23 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 24 | These purges seem consistent with the aim ( which his opponents accuse him of ) of turning parliament into an updated version of the old central committee of the Communist Party , with himself as general secretary and Congress acting as a rubber stamp . |
| 25 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 26 | If his creditors allowed him to be , he would be their vassal for life . |
| 27 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 28 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 29 | He dropped Mr Hambro where he was , in the edge of the water , and planted a foot between his shoulders to drive him in deeper before he made off . ’ |
| 30 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |