Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 2 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 3 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 4 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 5 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 8 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 9 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 10 | Wickham had been impressed with Shildon when he had interviewed him after his amended statement . |
| 11 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 12 | Scarlet had accepted that it was all her fault and endeavoured to do her poor best to compensate him for his unjust circumstances . |
| 13 | ‘ Peter means well and people always forgive him for his little failures . |
| 14 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 15 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 16 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 17 | Pieda , a powerful economic group , has attacked him for his crippling levy on whisky and says the excise tax policy on the famous tipple is ‘ against the national interest and discriminates against one of the UK 's top five exporters ’ . |
| 18 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 19 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 20 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 21 | The other was from the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations , thanking him for his personal contribution to the expansion of European Component Operations . |
| 22 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 23 | He took a sheet of Gordon 's notepaper and typed a short note to Alan Bleath , thanking him for his recent contribution to the stimulating seminar on lenses of a high refractive index , signed this with a fair approximation of Gordon 's hand and put it in one of the ‘ Gordon Beamish : See ? ’ envelopes , addressed to Alan Bleath , 329 Carradine Road , Mitcham . |
| 24 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 25 | With regard to sending mail to your grandson addressing him by his old surname , you are fully entitled to address him as you choose . |
| 26 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 27 | Looking back to her first encounter with Balbinder a year ago , when she had visited him at his previous school , she said that she had been shocked . |
| 28 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 29 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 30 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |