Example sentences of "[vb past] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His estranged wife Danielle and their three children spurned him at his sick bed when he announced plans to wed the former Bond girl . |
| 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 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 4 | When Callahan and I visited him at his large house on Sunset Beach , it was like walking around a graveyard : every board was a headstone with memories buried beneath it . |
| 5 | After Mary de Rachewiltz , Ezra Pound 's daughter , visited him in his gloomy study in Carlyle Mansions she wrote , " I had met a great man , and Loneliness " and one friend has remarked that " I knew he was intensely — even wretchedly — lonely " . |
| 6 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 7 | I was so affected by his discovery that I pursued his future career with the Museum Service and later visited him in his cardboard box . |
| 8 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 9 | Marco stroked him under his non-existent chin , murmuring consolingly to him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Anton though , as if waiting for this opening , Parker 's panic , caught him for his best bite yet , a chunk : with all of his teeth , his werewolf mouth , from high inside of a beefy thigh . |
| 12 | Seb always felt vaguely uncomfortable when Melody caught him on his own . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was the interest of his parents which sustained him in his early school career . |
| 15 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 16 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 17 | Unable to accept again the superstitions he had discarded , nevertheless with time and misfortune he found himself turning back to the three deities who had guided his early life , and helped him through his harsh apprenticeship as a scribe : the reasonable Thoth , ibis-headed , god of the scribes ; Horus , son of Osiris ; and the protector of the hearth , Bes — the little god of his childhood . |
| 18 | It gives Boles his " She helped him in his cruel games " and the Borough its " Speak out in the name of the Lord " , one of those superb unison ejaculations which will always send shivers down the spine of anyone who hates and fears mob agreement on any subject whatever . |
| 19 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 20 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 21 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 22 | I — er — I told him about his insulting you . ’ |
| 23 | Squeaky whistled in amazement when Yanto told him about his recent monster catch . |
| 24 | Finding a faint pulse , she divested him of his white coat , and tied him up with a length of cable . |
| 25 | Himmler received him in his private sitting room in the south wing . |
| 26 | Nobody recognised him at his true value . |
| 27 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 28 | he deserves a happier memorial than the one afforded him by his last few crazy hours on the dance-floor and the street . |
| 29 | She imagined him in his racing days driving at incredible speed towards some treacherous bend with just that same ice-cold look of control on his face . |
| 30 | Cecil crept up behind Sam and poked him with his over-sized weapon . |