Example sentences of "[v-ing] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 2 | ‘ She was representing him for his life . ’ |
| 3 | Love and pride shone from her enormous black eyes as , ever tender , she lifted her grandson and held him against her grubby sweater for a long moment before returning him to his crib . |
| 4 | Even if removing Mark is justifiable , research suggests returning him to his mother within six weeks would offer the best prospect for successful rehabilitation . |
| 5 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 6 | It was agreed that a letter be sent to Mr Field thanking him for his work as Membership Secretary and on the Committee . |
| 7 | A year before his death , Charles had written to Lord Mountbatten , once again thanking him for his help . |
| 8 | I send it to the individual 's home and I include a personal note from me thanking him for his achievement . |
| 9 | Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support . |
| 10 | I recall thanking him for his consideration , but quite probably I said nothing very definite for my employer went on : |
| 11 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 12 | Afterwards Churchill is supposed to have sent a note to the Marshal , thanking him for his hospitality and reminding him of the details of their verbal agreements of the night before the morning after . |
| 13 | He would n't chase her after reading the letter she had left for him , politely thanking him for his hospitality and saying she was returning to Palma to complete her work before returning to England . |
| 14 | Paul wrote to Dr Heatherton as he had intended , thanking him for his trouble and saying that he had called in the hope of meeting him . |
| 15 | My initial reaction was to write back thanking him for his time etc and making a few followup points , but Ive come round to the idea a personal meeting might be nice : - ) ) |
| 16 | My initial reaction was to write back thanking him for his time etc and making a few followup points , but Ive come round to the idea a personal meeting might be nice : - ) ) |
| 17 | And half way through the second act , when Ptolemy accused Caesar of driving him from his palace and Caesar said , ‘ Go , my boy , I will not harm you ; but you will be safer away , among your friends , here you are in the lion 's mouth ’ , Stella imagined St Ives spoke more severely than usual . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't dare accuse me of wanting him for his money again ! ’ she shouted , suddenly losing control . |
| 19 | MacIver denies assaulting and abducting a 46-year-old Ross-shire man , Donald Beaton , while acting with others , by hooding , binding and threatening to shoot him and robbing him of his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs . |
| 20 | Police are on the lookout for two youths who viciously attacked a 13-year-old Middlesbrough schoolboy at the Mandale picnic area , robbing him of his wristwatch . |
| 21 | The Greek with the wooden leg , whose machinations , he sometimes felt , ran as a dark undercurrent below all his own devices , robbing him of his belief in his will . |
| 22 | Innocent " postulated " Mauger , i.e. using his plenitude of power , he personally nominated him as bishop , dispensing him from his impediment . |
| 23 | Jacob now only vaguely remembered childhood days when his grandfather had loved bouncing him on his knee until the boy 's tiny yarmulkah almost slid down over his eyes , while chanting ‘ Yankeleh , Yankeleh , geb tzu zein zeide a bonkeleh . ’ |
| 24 | What I was really doing , up there in my private darkness , while below he played my mother 's old jazz records and new ones he 'd bought , why I really went so early was to have longer imagining him into his father . |
| 25 | Similarly some measure of Pakistan 's eventual triumph was due to Imran Khan 's unconventional tactics and the confidence which he demonstrated in his leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed by slotting him into his team 's battle plan at an early stage of proceedings . |
| 26 | This followed Radio Galaxy 's announcement that the Chief of Police , Maj. Joseph Michel François , an author of the September coup [ see p. 38523 ] , had been arrested after refusing to obey an order dismissing him from his post . |
| 27 | The count alleged that the seneschal 's lieutenant entered the hall of the castle at Vic-de-Bigorre with the dean of Le Puy , and treated him in an inexcusably unmannerly fashion by seizing him by his clothing and expelling him and his household familia from the place . |
| 28 | And then Adam holding and reassuring him in his turn , himself utterly without comfort . |
| 29 | At the same time , his chief object of popular musical study , the Tin Pan Alley hit , was governed to some extent by those criteria , thus confirming him in his approach , and discouraging any consideration of possible new criteria . |
| 30 | Interviewing him in his office in the Department of Transport , an ugly high-rise building that has the compensation of a superb panorama of London , dominated by Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament , it is hard to avoid the conclusion that MacGregor has moved a long way up the greasy pole . |