Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 61 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 62 | ( d ) This is the same ground as that which entitles a sheriff to allow an appeal made to him in his administrative capacity . |
| 63 | Pontypridd captain STEELE LEWIS had a three-week suspension imposed on him by his club following what was described as ‘ an internal incident ’ . |
| 64 | In spite of all this , we do not think that anyone who has chosen to work in a job where he is paid weekly should have monthly payment imposed on him against his will . |
| 65 | Gerrard was looking at him with his eyebrows slightly raised . |
| 66 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 67 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 68 | Young Donald was grinning at him with his new look of mockery . |
| 69 | Teena , Sams ' third wife , also rejected newspaper suggestions that she was offering to sell a book written by him about his killing of teenage prostitute Julie Dart and abduction of estate agent Stephanie Slater . |
| 70 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 71 | Athelstan , still feeling depressed after his visit to Hob 's wife , ignored the coroner and pushed by him into his small , two-roomed house . |
| 72 | The court must take into consideration the nature of the testator 's property , the pecuniary position of the dependant , his or her conduct to the testator , and any other relevant circumstance , and the testator 's reasons for the dispositions made by him in his will . |
| 73 | Former Scottish international Rodger , who won the men 's singles last year in the Middlesbrough Borough Councilsupported event , has a particular strong field competing against him for his title . |
| 74 | It was the sacrament of justification by grace ; the physical , palpable reminder that God acted for him without his aid and prior to his response . |
| 75 | ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’ |
| 76 | He lived for his reunion with Elizabeth ; all that sustained him until then was the daily letter from his new wife waiting for him in his lodgings . |
| 77 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 78 | Cowslip , coming up near-by , turned towards him with his unnatural smile . |
| 79 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 80 | Everyone who raced against him in his good years says roughly the same thing : as a driver , Emerson was enormously consistent , not especially aggressive , very thoughtful and possessed of an excellent racing technique , the source of which was undoubtedly a long apprenticeship spent in motor-cycle racing , karting , Formula Vee , in Renault Gordinis , sports-car racing and so on . |
| 81 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 82 | Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ? |
| 83 | Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life . |
| 84 | Allen turned on him with his bow at full stretch , but the little man did not stir . |
| 85 | ‘ Naylor , ’ she turned to him with his name on her lips , oddly , his pain her pain at that moment . |
| 86 | Scouse would give you time and date according to information supplied to him by his previous customers . |
| 87 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 88 | Or , if he really wants to worry aloud , he recalls the time not long ago when he woke one morning to find a black man looming over him in his bedroom carrying most of the clothes from wardrobe in one hand and the family carving knife in the other . |
| 89 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 90 | Unlike Kissinger , Le Duc Tho declined the Nobel Peace Prize offered to him for his role in negotiating the agreements . |