Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] of his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 2 | The blue should have reminded her of his flaming , instead of entrancing her by its own beauty , the beauty which had seemed to be utter and complete in itself . |
| 3 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 4 | At the meeting , the Prime Minister told me of his personal knowledge of the suffering of cancer victims and of their families and friends . |
| 5 | IN DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES , a black cop sat in his office above the Criminal Courts and told me of his seven years with the Hardcore Gang Unit of the District Attorney 's office : ‘ I have n't worked on anything but a murder since I started here . ’ |
| 6 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 7 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 8 | When Pat had told them of his new orders he said to his wife , ‘ You 'll have your lad home again , Julia , however it goes with , these letters he 's had . |
| 9 | Somebody shot the undertaker while he sat indoors in his shirt sleeves , stripped him of his remaining clothing and pushed him in the sea at the sewage outfall at or near high water . |
| 10 | He came directly to the parlour shared by Astorre , John and Tobie , followed by servants attempting to rid him of his wet cloak . |
| 11 | Sir Thomas remonstrated with him , as was his duty , reminding him of his high calling and how he will be required , in accordance with royal custom , to make a match advantageous to the realm — that is to say with a foreign princess . ’ |
| 12 | He could have gone on , reminding her of his own incredible bargaining skill , and revealing his knowledge of certain holdings still owned by the company , though truth to tell they were neither large nor especially lucrative . |
| 13 | His brave words echoed around the world after the IRA 's bomb in Enniskillen robbed him of his beloved daughter . |
| 14 | He goes home , to be abused by his wife for not being at work , until he tells her of his heavenly gift . |
| 15 | In Emendatio Vitae he deals with prayer , meditation and reading in that order , but in the actual chapter on contemplation he spells out a sequence which agrees with what he tells us of his own experience and which does not contradict his account in The Form . |
| 16 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 17 | Periods of injury between 1972 and 1976 possibly robbed us of his best years . |
| 18 | Discharging the jury after a plea from defence lawyers , judge Verney reminded them of his earlier warning . |
| 19 | Aline said , ‘ Maybe you reminded him of his long-lost youth . ’ |
| 20 | Away to his right the lighthouse stood on its rocky island like a picture in a story book and it all reminded him of his first holiday by the sea at the age of seven . |
| 21 | It now reminded him of his first visit to DEEP . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 24 | One hour later , after a breakfast that reminded him of his French experience in its meagreness , and made worse by the perpetual drone of Mr Multhrop 's stream of nervous apologies to each new arrival , he was ready to greet Auguste and his flock . |
| 25 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 26 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 27 | Her nerves were worn ragged by the swift changes in his moods , as first they convinced her of his avowed antipathy , as he called it , and then somehow , without any warning , he seemed to be saying quite the opposite . |
| 28 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 29 | The fourth book featured a scene in which a man planned to write a letter to his Father and Mother telling them of his new-found happiness , but he never could bring himself to write the letter . |
| 30 | Joan received in all three letters from Prince Edward over the next weeks , cheerful letters telling her of his new abode and his favourable impressions of the Welsh Marches and its people . |