Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you had a chance to meet him in his house with his guests , he was a most charming and intelligent man . |
| 2 | He wrote with her pen and kept the little envelope filled with notes she used to write him by his side . |
| 3 | ‘ Hi , ’ said Lydia , suppressing an urge to apostrophise him by his calling . |
| 4 | They also display all the features of a volcanicity that lasted late enough to terrify Palaeolithic man and perhaps to provide him with his fire . |
| 5 | Rory , who had been told to trust him by his father , never pressed him . |
| 6 | Stray whispers in a hundred distant-cousin tongues twittered through the ship , as if voices were trying to inform him of his fate , the ghost echoes from a million previous passengers , ten million down the centuries that this ship had been in service . |
| 7 | Sir Robert Dalyell of the Binns clearly saw himself in that light when , in 1760 , he approached Lord Milton to inform him of his wish to be of use to Milton 's politics in West Lothiah . |
| 8 | Anstey is the father of a pink cheeked vision of health and material well-being who tries to distract him from his writing by showing him her doll , a fashionably attired figure which intervenes in the space between them . |
| 9 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 10 | Black Blossom dared to tease him about his height and wiggle her huge breasts in his face to show how much taller she was by comparison . |
| 11 | I went to visit him in his room at Crazy Joe 's Plantation Village on the north end of Waimea Bay . |
| 12 | Mrs Noble , he said , thought him completely immoral and his own parents were chary of allowing Helen to visit him in his study bedroom at Shelgate Road as she used to do , although , he informed Harry , ‘ Mother knows Helen so well and likes her so much . ’ |
| 13 | The activity seemed to rouse him from his stupor . |
| 14 | A LORRY driver told the High Court in Inverness yesterday of the night he had been masked , bound and abducted by two men who had threatened to shoot him after his load of spirits , tobacco and foodstuffs had been stolen from Inverness . |
| 15 | Having tried unsuccessfully to reach him through his office — he edits a weekly newspaper for veterans of the wartime resistance — I decided finally to drive out to the village of Roztoky where he spends much of his time . |
| 16 | I also used to help him with his drink and biscuit and he would always drop his soggy biscuit over me but I was ever so sad when I finished going to the Mother and toddler group as that was my favourite part of the week . |
| 17 | I tried to help him with his schedule and give him advice on exam technique . |
| 18 | ‘ Now Amy , ’ said Mum ‘ Fraser needed those trainers for school and Mark got his books to help him with his maths . |
| 19 | ELECTRICIAN Terence Thomas , 36 , of Hayes Road , Birkenhead , successfully applied to Wirral magistrates yesterday for the return of his driving licence to help him with his work . |
| 20 | And gradually it came clear to him that every job the mate had given him had been carefully chosen to help him on his way to the bridge . |
| 21 | He knew that she was trying to help him save his marriage , and in a tiny part of himself he knew that she was right . |
| 22 | He would be obliged to offer me some aid , knowing I had information to help him in his pursuit of the monster . |
| 23 | ‘ He recalled the innumerable sacrifices he has made on your behalf and reproached you for not being prepared to help him in his hour of need . |
| 24 | To help him in his work the Secretary had formal and informal support . |
| 25 | It is obvious that Bellini had assistants to help him in his studio ; indeed , there is documentary proof of that . |
| 26 | With six children to feed she felt unable to challenge him about his mistress lest he walked out on her for good . |
| 27 | as if to aid him in his thought , Cat changed the music and let a waltz in . |
| 28 | Greeting him on his return from battle , she hands him over to his wife with palpable reluctance ; seeking to calm him before his confrontation with the people , she shackles him in an iron grip ; and , in the great plea with him not to sack Rome , she pinpoints the lines about him treading on his mother 's womb ‘ that brought thee to this world ’ . |
| 29 | They forced him across the pitch they forced him onto his right-hand side Collimore which is n't his best side and they 've managed t they 've managed to frustrate him at his shooting at a distance . |
| 30 | During these years Mackmurdo absorbed the main aesthetic and moral influences that were to guide him through his life , not so much from immediate masters as from the writings of John Ruskin , Herbert Spencer [ qq.v. ] , and Auguste Comte . |