Example sentences of "him [prep] his own " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of praying is not prayer , but to delight in God , and commune with him for his own sake . |
| 2 | Put together by him for his own interest . |
| 3 | George would take the credit for all Tom 's successes and blame him for his own failures . |
| 4 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 5 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 6 | We turned round and have managed to encourage him of his own volition to rejoin the others to make sure that all six enter the Pentland Firth and have a free passage out into the Atlantic . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 9 | I lead a life unassociated with the physical labours that are the proper countryman 's contribution to his surroundings and which integrate him with his own creations . |
| 10 | Though Chris is the play 's voice of conscience , he is , ultimately , a rather quavery one : Miller never confronts him with his own reluctance to grow up , his willing collaboration with a domineering father and a mother who ignores him to worship her dead son . |
| 11 | Nor is he happy for his skills to be compared with those of a stand-up comic despite his highly persuasive double act with Ken Dodd , who later presented him with his own tickling stick . |
| 12 | James and the Nazarean hierarchy send their own missionaries in his wake , to undo his preaching and compromise him with his own converts — for Paul , by now , is preaching something very different from what the Nazareans themselves , under Jesus 's brother , have sanctioned . |
| 13 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 14 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 15 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 16 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |
| 17 | He was afraid to keep him in his own house because the old fellow rants and raves upon occasion and might distress Mrs Browning . |
| 18 | The German saw him at once , walked over , shook hands , greeted him in his own language . |
| 19 | I 'd let my dad down , humiliated him in his own street . |
| 20 | One day he would find Corbett exposed and vulnerable and deal with him in his own sophisticated way . |
| 21 | From the first night he had met her , when she had stood up to him in his own house , he had been attracted to her . |
| 22 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | There is nothing inconsistent with the Income Tax Acts in recognising and respecting the distinction between property owned by a person as trustee and property owned by him in his own right … |
| 25 | Because Vitor had thanked him in his own language , the waiter took them both to be fellow compatriots and proceeded to chatter away in Portuguese , remarking on the sunny weather , suggesting choices of food and wine , complimenting them on Thomas 's cuteness and good behaviour . |
| 26 | We do n't see him in his own right . |
| 27 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 28 | Just as his political commitments exiled him from his own class , so my politics involve an awkward relationship with my own class . |
| 29 | ‘ Give him a fair trial , ’ the fat bastard roared , ‘ and then hang him from his own gate ! ’ ) |
| 30 | Lufbery became obsessed by the urge to avenge his friend , which evidently pursued him until his own death in May 1918 , and he was to be the first American to earn the title of ace . |