Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 2 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 3 | Conflicts with his superiors deprived him of the prospect of promotion , and at the age of twenty-five he found himself on the retired list , reduced to half pay in 1812 . |
| 4 | His opponents accused him of selling out to the United States on North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) with the United States and Mexico and leaving Canada with more unemployed and a bigger public debt than ever . |
| 5 | These purges seem consistent with the aim ( which his opponents accuse him of ) of turning parliament into an updated version of the old central committee of the Communist Party , with himself as general secretary and Congress acting as a rubber stamp . |
| 6 | Charles behaved rather like a landlord who could take a long view of the future and expect his possessions to provide him with an income in the fullness of time . |
| 7 | If his creditors allowed him to be , he would be their vassal for life . |
| 8 | His knights took him at his word . |
| 9 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 10 | He dropped Mr Hambro where he was , in the edge of the water , and planted a foot between his shoulders to drive him in deeper before he made off . ’ |
| 11 | He had a thin cardigan over his shoulders to protect him from the breeze . |
| 12 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 13 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 14 | On the contrary , he allowed his clergy to criticize him with astonishing freedom , as Alcuin criticized his forcible conversion of the Saxons . |
| 15 | ‘ Now Amy , ’ said Mum ‘ Fraser needed those trainers for school and Mark got his books to help him with his maths . |
| 16 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 17 | This is the one where Paul recalls his parents telling him during the war not to worry during air raids , ‘ because it 's unlikely the bomb will ever have your name written on it , son ’ . |
| 18 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 19 | Drake 's interest in magic and illusion began at the age of nine when his parents took him to Indonesia . |
| 20 | His parents took him into their cabin . |
| 21 | His parents took him into their adjoining cabin when he wept — and saved his life . |
| 22 | His parents took him into their adjoining room — and saved his life . |
| 23 | But his parents want him to be taught with normal children . |
| 24 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 25 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 26 | His parents removed him from Wellington College in 1891 , following a diphtheria epidemic , to a school in Bruges , whence too he was removed after a homosexual scandal . |
| 27 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 28 | His rounds took him to most parts of the building and Rain was eagerly accepting that it must have been Stan on the second floor making her jumpy when he mentioned that since the murder he did not go into MacQuillan 's room or those next to it because the police were usually there . |
| 29 | Twice his eyes and his feet caused him to be rejected . |
| 30 | Taylor replaced him and , according to Rust , ‘ preached to the admiration and astonishment of his auditory ; and by his florid and youthful beauty … and sublime and pleasant air made his hearers take him for a young angel ’ . |