Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Like Mrs Plews , Mr Jim Tomlinson , of Richmond , found the study helped him in his work as a teacher at Risedale School , Hipswell , Catterick Garrison . |
| 2 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 3 | The superintendent thanked him for his help and bade him goodnight but with a distracted air as though her attention were elsewhere . |
| 4 | The Association honoured him on his retirement with the award of a medal of honour and elected him as a Vice-President The following year he was made an OBE for his lifelong work for the deaf . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've earned it ! ’ … a bright , distant light halted him in his tracks ! |
| 6 | An ostler took the cavalryman 's horse while a liveried footman relieved him of his helmet and cumbersome sword . |
| 7 | He was fortunate to have been accepted as a member of the new customs syndicate in 1667 before Clarendon 's fall deprived him of his patron ; but the lease was cancelled four years later , when the farmers sought guarantees against the heavy defalcations to be expected in the imminent Dutch war . |
| 8 | People in the village knew him by his dourness , by the distance he put between himself and them . |
| 9 | But typical Mansell courage and skill took him past his arch rival … and with Patrasse in the pits it was left to Mansell to claim victory … only just though on a set of well worn and blistered tyres . |
| 10 | As we tunnelled our way through the steep rhododendron-canopied paths at Aros , Alistair said the rain , the humidity and the terrain reminded him of his ‘ spell in Assam during the War . |
| 11 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 12 | The baby in its cradle confirmed him in his desire for infantile carefree experiences . |
| 13 | In February 1973 his geography teacher warned him in his report to : ‘ Be more aware of the influence of ‘ friends ’ who might adversely affect your future progress . ’ |
| 14 | Incognito , he worked as a ferryman and lived in Biddick boat-house for over twenty years , when a terrible flood robbed him of his possessions and his proof of identification . |
| 15 | The band knew him from his days with another Leeds ' band , The Sinister Cleaners . |
| 16 | Harry , galvanized by the words , sprang from his seat and lunged towards the door , but too late : an impenetrable barrier of glass and metal separated him from his quarry . |
| 17 | An –easy conscience chafed him like his new , scratchy tweed suit , caused him the same persistent discomfort as the broken spring he was hatching out beneath his buttocks . |
| 18 | But the king grabbed him by his horns , beat him and thumped him , and said , " Go back to that boy and keep pestering him . |
| 19 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 20 | Another sharp blow hit him between his shoulder-blades . |
| 21 | THE SON of a British Army officer yesterday described to the Aldington libel jury in the High Court how his late father told him of his ‘ horror ’ when he received the order to repatriate Cossacks at the end of the second world war . |
| 22 | He later admitted the loan stretched him to his financial limit . |
| 23 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 24 | In consequence , despite protests from the Diplomatic Corps , the Chinese government dismissed him from his office on 31 January 1927 . |
| 25 | The turn of a key in the lock of the brown door stopped him in his tracks . |
| 26 | He was about to put his trousers back and take out another pair , when a sudden thought stopped him in his tracks . |
| 27 | From the doorway a furious voice stopped him in his tracks . |
| 28 | A tug at his trouser leg awakened him from his reverie . |
| 29 | I in turn thanked him for his careful encouragement and support at the various stages of the project . |
| 30 | But a late Rangers ' free-kick hit him on his nearly-bald spot and bounced kindly for Dennis Bailey to rob United of a point . |