Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them rounded on him , grabbed him by the arm , but only asked him for his name and address . ’ |
| 2 | Coleridge was to speak and write on many occasions of the ‘ visions of childhood ’ which so filled him during his London school-days . |
| 3 | When he hesitated , she reached down and gently pulled him to his feet . |
| 4 | Going to the chair where he was already dropping off to sleep , she gently pulled him to his feet and began peeling the clothes from his back . |
| 5 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 6 | He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird . |
| 7 | She began by destroying the contents of the studio , slashing all his canvases , painted or not , then tracking the felon himself , and mounting an assault that literally brought him to his knees , in fear for his balls . |
| 8 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 9 | It is held that , although he lived until the end of the Second World War , his clericalism and conservatism alone deprived him of his Marshal 's baton . |
| 10 | Nothing had been done to prettify the site as at Sizewell , on the Suffolk coast , or to produce the pleasantly laid-out grounds of smooth lawn , flowering trees and shrubs which so agreeably impressed him on his periodic visits to Winfrith in Dorset . |
| 11 | What finally propelled him from his Cabinet seat on 9 January was the promulgation of a new and improvised Cabinet convention by Mrs Thatcher — that all future ministerial statements on the future of Westland would have to be cleared by the Cabinet Office . |
| 12 | Those words stroked a node of madness within him which somehow detached him from his excruciation so that he flew above it fleetingly before sinking back into molten anguish . |
| 13 | And Christopher went , he went down the slide we , we just left him on his own . |
| 14 | I always admired him for his tenacity of purpose and dedication — and envied his super brain-power . |
| 15 | I always admired him in his Swindon days , and advocated him as a viable replacement/competitor for fat Mel . |
| 16 | Sir John died in Tooting 5 June 1670 and was buried in the old church ; his will shows a debt due from the tsar and an amount still owed him for his allowance as ambassador . |
| 17 | His skill on the ball meant that he was occasionally useful in an inside berth , but the Palace were seldom more than a struggling outfit while he was with us and it is doubtful if many Palace fans ever saw him at his best . |
| 18 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 19 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 20 | Although he denied it , at the time he fled to Damascus where the Syrians — never slow to take advantage of those in need — offered him protection and later supported him in his successful candidacy for the presidency of Lebanon in 1970 . |
| 21 | The sight of an open pub told him how much time had passed and also reminded him of his normal comfort in moments of stress . |
| 22 | Nor is he happy for his skills to be compared with those of a stand-up comic despite his highly persuasive double act with Ken Dodd , who later presented him with his own tickling stick . |
| 23 | That period of his life also freed him for his experiments in other kinds of theatre which , although he never reverted to them after taking on his Stuttgart responsibilities , enriched his subsequent work . |
| 24 | He was joined on most of his hunting expeditions by two Aborigines , Natty and Jemmy , ‘ two intelligent and faithful natives of the Yarrundi tribe ’ , who became extremely attached to Gould and later accompanied him on his most ambitious and successful expedition to the Mokai and Namoi Rivers in December of that year . |
| 25 | His talents and character perfectly qualified him for his role and his motives expressed ‘ an awful sense of his duty as a Christian ’ . |
| 26 | Though he attempted a detailed rebuttal , chapter by chapter , Milton himself had to admit that ‘ Some men have by policy accomplished after death that revenge upon their enemies which in life they were not able ’ , and that ‘ they who before hated him for his high government , nay fought against him with displayed banners in the field , now applaud him for the wisest and most religious prince that lived ’ . |
| 27 | They drank for a moment before Jordan returned to what really worried him about his boss 's handling of the case . |
| 28 | He let his mind play over the man as he had felt him at their meeting , as he now knew him from his books : vain , opinionated , hearty , joky . |
| 29 | Summoned before the Protector , Simpson boldly accused him to his face of treason , for taking the government upon himself . |
| 30 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |