Example sentences of "[verb] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Goreng had dominated him with his will . |
| 2 | You 'd see a drunk , and if he was n't incapable , send him on his way . |
| 3 | Then we 'll give him another feast and send him on his way . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll ground him , or send him to his room . |
| 5 | In consequence , despite protests from the Diplomatic Corps , the Chinese government dismissed him from his office on 31 January 1927 . |
| 6 | When you had a chance to meet him in his house with his guests , he was a most charming and intelligent man . |
| 7 | Since first meeting him I learned to admire and respect him for his sincerity , humanity , integrity and his delightful sense of humour . |
| 8 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 9 | The only clues in the biographical sources which may give some positive result relative to the death date of Fahreddin Acemi arise from the statement in Taskopruzade 's article on him that Molla Ali Tins , visited him on his death-bed and heard his last wishes . |
| 10 | A ‘ light from heaven ’ allegedly knocks him from his horse and ‘ a voice ’ , issuing from no perceptible source , demands of him : ‘ Saul , Saul , why are you persecuting me ? ’ |
| 11 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 12 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 13 | For a minute or two all conversation was silenced while Kalchu bounced him on his lap and muttered softly through his screaming . |
| 14 | He wrote with her pen and kept the little envelope filled with notes she used to write him by his side . |
| 15 | Sooner than he had expected , Harry found himself back in Swindon Central Library , this time perusing the national newspapers for 2 June 1987 in the hope of gleaning from them some clue as to what had eluded him on his visit to Tyler 's Hard . |
| 16 | So , of course , he got up , I went to close the door he was there so I tried him in his pushchair , I says well you 'll have to walk , I know it 's only five minutes away . |
| 17 | No sooner was Lydia 's wedding to Tobias over , than Bob Lamb had approached him for his permission to pay court to Martha , with a view to eventual marriage . |
| 18 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 19 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 20 | ‘ You wrote that you caught him at his flat just at the time he was leaving the country . ’ |
| 21 | Two years later he bought my mother a new car and at just the same time I caught him in his office with his secretary . ’ |
| 22 | If er something comes in , they can attack him on his back do you see . |
| 23 | Yet still Jacob has him in his grip , and the mysterious assailant begs him to let him go ‘ for the day is breaking ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ Hi , ’ said Lydia , suppressing an urge to apostrophise him by his calling . |
| 25 | But Althusser elaborates it a little , using the example of Christianity , where religious practice is said to ‘ hail ’ the individual and provide him with his status as a subject . |
| 26 | In the early 1930s , from his city desk at Faber and Faber , Eliot was busy paying tribute to other cities which had educated him in his way of life and to city writers who had aided his way of writing . |
| 27 | She found him at his desk , downing vodka , talking on the telephone to Susan , telling her soothingly , ‘ No , I 'm not drinking any more . ’ |
| 28 | Vacations found him at his estate at Murthly , Perthshire , or , after its sale in 1921 , on Speyside and in St Andrews . |
| 29 | Sub-Prior Richard , a kindly soul even to those for whom he had no particular liking , grew anxious , and went to look for the stray , and found him on his bed in the dortoir , pallid and shivering , pleading sickness and looking pinched , grey and cold . |
| 30 | I found him in his trench enjoying a mug of tea and in deep conversation with a Commando friend of his . |