Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms . |
| 2 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 3 | I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 6 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 7 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |
| 8 | I lead a life unassociated with the physical labours that are the proper countryman 's contribution to his surroundings and which integrate him with his own creations . |
| 9 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 10 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 11 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 12 | Fido 's owners should be aware of this and take steps to play him at his own game . |
| 13 | Decided to play him at his own game . |
| 14 | Sigmar divided his land between the allied chiefs who had helped him during his many wars . |
| 15 | ‘ I know exactly what you hoped , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ and I like him on his own . |
| 16 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 17 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 18 | Electing to leave him to his own devices , I wave through the windscreen but he is still fumbling through his camera bag and does n't say goodbye . |
| 19 | That 's right , he usually sits up there , and I 'm , not going to leave him on his own till I know he 's alright . |
| 20 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 21 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 22 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 23 | But now , as in all good rehabilitated hellraiser stories , the only coke he touches comes from a bottle and he has a wife , Becky , who has helped him overcome the demon drink and restored him to his former hunky self . |
| 24 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 25 | William the Conqueror , who was a second cousin to King Edward the Confessor , succeeded as Duke of Normandy in 1035 , and believed that he was entitled to the crown of England , despite the fact that Harold II had fought along side him in his many battles against his great enemy , the King of France . |
| 26 | Though Chris is the play 's voice of conscience , he is , ultimately , a rather quavery one : Miller never confronts him with his own reluctance to grow up , his willing collaboration with a domineering father and a mother who ignores him to worship her dead son . |
| 27 | ‘ Bind him on his own horse — it will go better under him than another . |
| 28 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 29 | However , when a one-time tenant called to say his possessions had been seized to pay his debts , Sheridan gave him the £300 which the man said would restore him to his former state . |
| 30 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |