Example sentences of "[vb pp] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Goreng had dominated him with his will . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A single moment when she 'd reminded him of his sister meant nothing … |
| 5 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His thoughts were running north and west , up into Lochaber , the oakwoods and pinewoods at the foot of Loch Arkaig which had cradled him in his boyhood . |
| 8 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 9 | It also faced him with the need to untangle a financial crisis , a task that has frequently occupied him in his career . |
| 10 | He remembered a conversation he 'd once had with his brother , who had teased him about his interest in the works of Elinor Dove . |
| 11 | He was deeply in love with an Over Stowey woman called Ann Rice , but was forced into marriage to a half-mad girl who had visited him at his shelter and who bore him two illegitimate children . |
| 12 | At a press conference he gave after the collapse of the coup ( on Aug. 21 ) Gorbachev recounted that a delegation , consisting of Boldin , Gen. Plekhanov , Shenin and Gen. Varennikov , had visited him at his holiday dacha in the Crimea on Aug. 18 and placed him under house arrest because he had refused to endorse a state of emergency . |
| 13 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 14 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 15 | Ronnie is just glad it 's all over , and aware that his past acting career had prepared him for his ordeal . |
| 16 | Jim , who gave a lively impromptu speech after chairman , Hugh Jamieson had presented him with his award , was in typically dismissive mood about his own talents . |
| 17 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
| 18 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 19 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 20 | I had always admired him , ever since as a small boy I had seen him in his State robes in India . |
| 21 | He had met him on his way to the stables , and they stood in a yard which was busy with blacksmiths and farriers . |
| 22 | Somebody had pushed him to his death from a window in Oxford in 1968 and , twenty years later , Harry was pursuing the consequences . |
| 23 | When he dragged out the table and the lamplight spilled onto the splodges of cadmium yellow and scarlet lake , he thought of the girl who had shown him to his dressing-room on the morning of his arrival . |
| 24 | He was planning on a shave and a slow , hot bath ; he might even throw in some of that stuff that Wayne had bought him for his birthday , that came in a dubious-looking novelty bottle shaped like a tiger 's head . |
| 25 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 26 | In an interview with an Israeli newspaper published on Jan. 2 , Weizmann described Shimon Peres , the Labour leader and Vice Prime Minister , as a " son of a bitch " and claimed that Peres had actually briefed him during his telephone conversation with the Palestinian in Tunis . |
| 27 | Gilmour Thom , 51 , an institutional salesman with Bell Lawrie White , told the court that after Mackie had briefed him on his meeting with Mr Runciman , he had sold about 1.5 million Shanks & McEwan shares at prices ranging from 305p to 318p . |
| 28 | Preston would have preferred him in his cloth cap with the old woolly cardigan he used to wear , or the long grey mac . |
| 29 | She 'd watched him at his breakfast out by the terrace , and he could barely feed himself . |
| 30 | Should have told him to his face . |