Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee 's intervention is expected to be warmly welcomed by City fans who idolised him during his playing days . |
| 2 | Under-fire Saints boss Ian Branfoot knows Wallace would be a huge hit with the fans , who idolised him before his £1.25 million move north four years ago . |
| 3 | MacArthur impressed most of those who met him through his strengths of character , commitment and tenacity . |
| 4 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 5 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 6 | It was Alan 's wife who entered him for his first rally and he enjoyed it so much he decided to continue . |
| 7 | No one in Bristol — certainly not Big Mal , now 65 — was letting on exactly who hired him for his latest battle against relegation . |
| 8 | For Binks was a plant collector , sending his finds to several eminent gentlemen in the Darlington area who paid him for his keen eyes and diligent legwork . |
| 9 | Knights as well as nobles took prisoners at Poitiers , and the Black Prince granted lands , offices and annuities to many yeomen and bachelors who served him on his campaigns in Gascony between 1355 and 1357 . |
| 10 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 11 | ‘ He was the original tall , dark , handsome boy at school , ’ said a woman who knew him at his senior school . |
| 12 | Edinburgh friends who knew him from his Islay childhood thought that he might be able to help me . |
| 13 | Several undergraduates who knew him from his Trinity days often came to see him and wrote to him especially at Christmas . |
| 14 | It was Peters who chided him about his frail physique , which led to his regular attendance at August 's Gymnasium , which was in the basement of Apley Hall . |
| 15 | He seems to think he has the moral right to usurp him , completely ignoring the woman who nurtured him through his last worst year . |
| 16 | On this same trip he also called in on Tersteeg — who sowerscomplimented him on his progress — and on another painter , de Bock . |
| 17 | I had a long talk once with the very bright lady who accompanied him in his early days , a lady of charm and accomplishment and infinitely more mature than Niki was . |
| 18 | Those who remembered him with his barrow recalled a cheerful , toothy smile , an infectious , confidence-inspiring laugh . |
| 19 | It was a novel experience for Preston , going out with somebody who wanted him for his body . |
| 20 | But he had already scored both Arsenal goals — which may surprise Graham Taylor , who picked him for his England squad only to be told he 's not fit enough . |
| 21 | It 's about a witch who chased him on his mare . |
| 22 | And for fatherless Havelock Wilson , sea captain 's grandson , it was his storytelling grandmother who set him on his life path , despite a mother who banned him from the harbour at Sunderland . |
| 23 | His luck — and he would have a lot of luck ( which he acknowledged generously and constantly ) — was to meet here the first of many teachers who set him on his way . |
| 24 | He trusted the captains of his ships , he trusted his trading partners in the East , in the Indian Ocean , over the Atlantic , around the African coast ; his clerks , his associates in Liverpool , his bank , his builders , his carpenters , those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes — Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust . |
| 25 | They had three sons and two daughters , all of whom predeceased him except his youngest son , John . |