Example sentences of "[to-vb] him of [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as she nodded in agreement , he added viciously , ‘ Were you already planning , even as that photograph was being taken , how you were going to fleece him of every penny he possessed ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 3 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes . |
| 6 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 7 | However , that knowledge was not sufficient to rid him of the problem , so we continued the treatment by using hypnotherapy . |
| 8 | What influence I had with S.B. was now used to persuade him of the wisdom of this course . |
| 9 | The Labour MP Dr Jack Cunningham was touring the complex during the nuclear spillage , but the nuclear company failed to notify him of the incident . |
| 10 | He worries — wrongly , it now seems — that Mr Mitterrand will do anything to cheat him of the succession . |
| 11 | The magistrates were held entitled to find that the constables were not private friends at the certificate-holder bona fide entertained by him , and to convict him of a contravention of subs . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've enough evidence to convict him of the Englishman 's murder , anyway , ’ the marshal pointed out . |
| 13 | The best way to deal with him was ‘ to starve him of the oxygen of publicity ’ . |
| 14 | Roberts took his tally for the season to 150 with a treble on Carousel Music , True Story and Shuailaan at Windsor , only for Lloyd to rob him of a four-timer by beating him on Brigante Di Cielo . |
| 15 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 16 | And asserts that he did it ignorantly not knowing there was any evil in it , and after the several members of the presbytery had dealt with him and endeavoured to convince him of the sinfulness of the said practice he seemed to dislike the practice of the charm and judicially promised to forbear it for the future . |
| 17 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 18 | The presb. after serious dealing with him to convince him of the evil of the said practice , and after receiving his promise judicially not to practice it any more appoints him to be publickly rebuked before the congregation by his parish minister . " |
| 19 | She must persuade him of her good intentions — for it had never crossed her mind that she would not repay him — but she must also try to convince him of the seriousness of her situation and persuade him to grant her a bit of leeway . |
| 20 | On May 18th 60 members had a long session with Howard Pastor , the White House head of congressional liaison , trying to convince him of the need for further cuts . |
| 21 | It would be sad if ill-health were to deprive him of the chance to become the first democratically-elected president of South Africa . |
| 22 | The economist 's role in all this is essentially to make the policy-maker aware of these trade-offs and to advise him of the suitability of alternative policy tools for the achievement of objectives . |
| 23 | Unfortunately when we went into the shop to buy his gift we met a couple of his ex-girlfriends who insisted on coming along to remind him of the girls he is leaving behind , and to present him with a small , but wonderfully-packaged gift , a token of our friendship . |
| 24 | He needed no Bible to remind him of the life of Christ , and if ever he felt the need for a symbol upon which to concentrate his devotions , he satisfied himself by making the sign of the cross with his fingers . |
| 25 | as if to remind him of the past , Controller Macdonald had a large video print of that moment on one wall of his office , which was in the basement . |
| 26 | She leaned forward to address Simmons intending to remind him of the reason for her visit to the college , but he began to speak . |
| 27 | There was no sign of infection , nor even scar to remind him of the accident . |
| 28 | He had already learned his lesson by painful experience ; the burn-like swelling on his left calf still throbbed occasionally to remind him of the morning a week ago when he had drawn on his trousers carelessly , to discover that a scorpion had spent the night nestling in one of the legs . |
| 29 | I 'm here to do a job of work and if dressing conservatively and ignoring his attempts at seductive banter are what it takes to remind him of the fact , so be it . ’ |
| 30 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |