Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wendt 's income puts him on a par with Peter Wood , founder of the Royal Bank of Scotland 's Direct Line insurance company who was paid £1.84m last year , but leaves him well ahead of other leading company chairmen . |
| 2 | The lessee was protected , not by a real action , but by a personal action against his lessor , in which he could recover , not the land itself , but only damages to the breach of his landlord 's contract to allow him the use of the land . |
| 3 | More often , an executive 's contract entitles him to private use of his car . |
| 4 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
| 5 | The assassin 's blow threw him back against the wall , hitting it so hard he brought books tumbling from the shelves , but before the assassin 's fingers found his throat he delivered a punch to the man 's belly that must have touched some tender place , because the assault ceased , and the attacker let him go , his eyes fixed for the first time on Gentle 's face . |
| 6 | The first hint that Hills might be interested in a group pensions plan came when the company 's Board asked him to arrange a formal briefing . |
| 7 | They tell me that Mr. Stavanger has a magnificent record , and is very highly thought of in shipping circles — indeed , they went so far as to say that they 'd recommend the bank 's board to support him through thick and thin . |
| 8 | Simon shouted this aloud , throwing out his challenge into the dark , as if daring Mr Bishop 's ghost to haunt him again . |
| 9 | It was a gladiator 's performance that again calls into question Manchester United 's decision to sell him for £750,000 in the close season . |
| 10 | Mrs McRobert said that Say continued to threaten to take his own life , blaming his wife 's decision to leave him for his predicament . |
| 11 | The Government 's decision to deport him is regrettable , but the matter is out of our hands . ’ |
| 12 | DR Robert Jones , who was repeatedly quizzed after the murder of his wife Diane in 1983 , yesterday began an appeal against the General Medical Council 's decision to suspend him over an alleged improper examination of a patient in Coggeshall , Essex . |
| 13 | The ruling came after a 10-day industrial tribunal hearing at which Robert Nicholson , 58 , challenged Birmingham Education Authority 's decision to dismiss him . |
| 14 | Anfield has quickly taken to the midfielder and manager Graeme Souness 's decision to replace him with Michael Thomas during Tuesday 's match with Southampton was greeted by a chorus of boos . |
| 15 | On June 17 the Colorado leadership issued a statement deploring and rejecting the Assembly 's decision to debar him from a second term . |
| 16 | Stuart Harper ( Points of View , 6 February ) welcomes the Government 's decision to provide him with data on examination results so that he can use it to make decisions on schools in ‘ the Government 's market-place for education . ’ |
| 17 | BARRY FRY wants to put Stan Flashman through the wringer by forcing the man dubbed ‘ Fat Stan ’ to account for yesterday 's decision to sack him as Barnet manager before an industrial tribunal . |
| 18 | Hong Kong 's decision to free him is understood to have been made after talks involving the governor , Sir David Wilson , and the territory 's political adviser , William Ehrman . |
| 19 | WEST HAM stalwart Tony Gale last night hit out at the club 's decision to place him on the transfer list . |
| 20 | But Gloucestershire 's decision to place him on the restrictive List One of available players has been initially supported by the TCCB registration committee . |
| 21 | He was very worried about the rectal bleeding and believed that the consultant 's decision to admit him so quickly indicated his condition was serious . |
| 22 | Tilda , who had been vexed at missing the actual shipwreck , went straight down to Willis 's cabin to ask him if he would draw her a picture of it . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’ |
| 24 | Harry 's accent makes him think of Vienna , and Vienna of E. H. Gombrich . |
| 25 | He needed his wife 's presence to spruce him up and to take both him and the cottage in hand . |
| 26 | Robyn 's look left him in no doubt . |
| 27 | Densil 's mum let him a room . |
| 28 | Peter Mueller 's experience brought him no great success , either racing or on the French roads ; the new roundabout in Bourg St Maurice , on the road to Val d'Isere , had nearly caught us out , and later we heard that Mueller had crashed and written off his car . |
| 29 | Rush knows the dangers of taking things for granted , and last term 's experience makes him speak of hopes rather than expectations , refusing to make predictions . |
| 30 | Baddam 's experience qualified him for his most ambitious known project — an abridgement of the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions . |