Example sentences of "[vb infin] him [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 2 | He did n't let memory divert him from his present pleasure , but found his rhythm ; long , slow strokes . |
| 3 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 4 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 5 | It could yet follow him into his political career . |
| 6 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 7 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 8 | The Black Man of Saxony , playing grisly tunes so that the children would follow him to his terrible mountain lair , there to be given up to the Man of the Mountains . |
| 9 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 10 | But Fogerty 's Hollywood dreams will not deter him from his other ambitions — such as becoming a League international just like his dad Terry . |
| 11 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 12 | He thrust the clothes brush into the bewildered Prendergast 's hand , patted him on the shoulder , and made tracks for the Personnel Director 's Office by a circuitous route that did not take him past his own . |
| 13 | Greg did not enlighten him about his real origins . |
| 14 | He also commissions M. Bijou de Millecolonnes , who despises the ancients , and whose ‘ lightness , gaiety , and originality ’ are the antipodes of the ‘ solidity , solemnity and correctness ’ of Sir Carte Blanche , to build in a ‘ wild sequestered spot ’ in Regent 's Park a pavilion reminiscent of Nash 's at Brighton , which gives rise to a rumour ‘ that the Zoological Society intended to keep a Bengal tiger au naturel , and that they were contriving a residence which would amply compensate him for his native jungle ’ . |
| 15 | However , when a one-time tenant called to say his possessions had been seized to pay his debts , Sheridan gave him the £300 which the man said would restore him to his former state . |
| 16 | ‘ That is what he wanted us all to think , including the Men , ’ said Minch , ‘ and we should honour him for his cunning and intelligence . |
| 17 | She could n't just ignore him in his own house and she had the nasty feeling that she would not have been able to ignore him anywhere . |
| 18 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 19 | He was in his thirties , I would put him in his early thirties , yeah , I 'd say he was younger than me . |
| 20 | So I can go upstairs and put him in his rocking chair . |
| 21 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 22 | His comments will certainly endear him to his hon. Friends . |
| 23 | I had wanted to be a nun before Nour had made me love him with his golden hair and his golden face and his golden eyes . |
| 24 | If considered appropriate by the OR a public examination of the debtor will then be held and creditors can examine him about his financial affairs . |
| 25 | If the result was not one for Graham Turner to celebrate on the third anniversary of his takeover at Wolves , the manner of their performance should certainly cheer him on his 42nd birthday today . |
| 26 | ‘ Do n't ask him about his new domestic set-up . |
| 27 | Gould would also have angled for contacts who might help him with his prospective expedition . |
| 28 | It is hoped that this instrument will help him in his new parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Leasowe to enrich further the lives of the people at home with all kinds of music . |