Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him [prep] his " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Balcha now had no alternative but to surrender to Ras Tafari who , with characteristic magnanimity , spared his life ; as to whether he ordered Balcha to enter a monastery or banished him to his estates in the Gurage country , accounts differ . |
| 2 | I 'll ground him , or send him to his room . |
| 3 | The seller then becomes a trustee for the buyer and must account to him for any dividends he receives and vote in accordance with his instructions ( or appoint him as his proxy ) . |
| 4 | All manner of villain tries to tempt him , divert him , or separate him from his small savings . |
| 5 | I was debating whether to try to stop the bleeding first or to leave him in his uncertain state while I found a way out , trusting he would n't totally pass out , when I heard the main door creak open directly above our heads ; the way Harry and I had come in . |
| 6 | Thereafter Helen frequently walked to meet him or to accompany him on his return home across Wandsworth Common and on January 1896 they had their first long walk to Richmond . |
| 7 | Solicitors are not permitted to enter into an agreement with their clients that purports to exclude their liability for professional misconduct ( which extends to professional negligence ) though subject to the following rules liability can be limited by contract : ( 1 ) liability may not be limited below the minimum level of cover afforded under the Indemnity Fund ; ( 2 ) liability can not be limited at all for fraud or reckless disregard of professional obligations ; ( 3 ) s60(5) of the Solicitors Act avoids any provision in a contentious business agreement purporting to exclude the liability of a solicitor for negligence or to relieve him of his professional responsibilities ; ( 4 ) ss2(2) and 11(4) of the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 will apply to agreements between solicitors and their clients to ensure that limited liability provisions which do not fall foul of any other rule comply with the essential requirement of reasonableness . |
| 8 | Whitlock sprung to his feet and caught him on the side of the head with a stinging haymaker then followed up with two brutal body punches that dropped him to his knees . |
| 9 | He uses another shabby character , Tigg , to do his scrounging for him , he himself being ‘ of too haughty a stomach to work , to beg , to borrow , or steal ; yet mean enough to be worked or borrowed , begged or stolen for , by any catspaw that would serve his turn ; too insolent to lick the hand that fed him in his need , yet cur enough to bite and tear it in the dark ’ . |
| 10 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |
| 11 | Like many supposed puppets , Mr Castro learnt to tug on the strings that tied him to his masters ' hands . |
| 12 | Asked about the daring six that took him to his century , Lewis added : ‘ I had got to 90 by attacking the bowling so I was determined to keep playing that way . |
| 13 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 14 | The means by which he had got this cadetship proved the first strand in a complicated web that snared him at his trial for treason . |
| 15 | In keeping with this traditional matter went another , equally traditional : ‘ Spare the rod and spoil the child , ’ though in Leonard 's case it was not ‘ the rod ’ but the dog-lead that reminded him of his responsibilities , accurately wielded by his mother . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thus Barbarossa came from a noble family , with a background that suited him to his eventual imperial career . |
| 18 | ‘ The simplest of jobs can be done with panache ’ , he would instruct whenever one of his staff fell short of his standards of perfection — the standards that endeared him to his ‘ Shiny Set ’ customers and staff alike . |
| 19 | His expectations of the bird life were high , and he revelled in the sense of anticipation that gripped him before his departure . |
| 20 | He would neither plead with him to stay nor help him with his leaving . |
| 21 | For it was the Spirit who called Philip from his successful mission in Samaria to reach the Ethiopian eunuch with the gospel ( 8:29 and probably 26 ) , and led him on his further preaching tour as far as the very Hellenised city of Caesarea . |
| 22 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 23 | Eventually Ken was referred to a doctor who had an interest in dietary factors in disease , and asked him about his diet It emerged that Ken drank 20 cups of tea or coffee , both very strong , in the course of the average day . |
| 24 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 25 | He then turned to the general strike and asked him about his role in it . |
| 26 | She went to the parson 's house after dark , and met him near his gate . |
| 27 | But I so need to be walking up the stairs and pushing open the studio door , and seeing him at his bench , looking over his shoulder at me , as if he 's not in the least interested to see who it is . |
| 28 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 29 | When he came round , they dragged him outside and flung him in his night-clothes , into a car and handcuffed him . |
| 30 | Then we 'll give him another feast and send him on his way . ’ |