Example sentences of "him during his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sigmar divided his land between the allied chiefs who had helped him during his many wars . |
| 2 | His wife of 37 years , Nesta , stood by him during his first public humiliation . |
| 3 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 4 | The appalling hardship , primitive conditions , tremendous heat on the exposed rocky outcrop , and the omnipresent spice of danger which he encountered on his first experience of active service , appealed to the adventurous and the Spartan in Leslie , and salved the conscience that had irked him during his long training and frustrating inactivity at home . |
| 5 | would like to thank managers and staff at the branch for the support they gave him during his recent illness . |
| 6 | It is always dangerous to draw individual implications from social and psychological survey-work such as this , but it does fit : Leonard 's admission of insomnia , of disturbing dreams and nightmares , his high sensitivity , his creative abilities ; not least his father 's demise and his mother 's need to attend to him during his frequent bouts of sickness before it . |
| 7 | Socialist Euro MPs jeered and heckled him during his key speech to the European Parliament , in which he spoke of Britain 's ‘ triumphs ’ of the Edinburgh Summit . |
| 8 | Players who visited him during his final days in the Walton Centre gave him an Everton shirt which was later buried with him . |
| 9 | One officer who had worked with him during his short stay in the force laughingly told colleagues that this ‘ college man ’ definitely had one arrest — because he would willingly recall details of his big moment for anyone who was prepared to listen . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's old enough to have respect for one who cared for him during his teenage years . |
| 11 | Lee 's intervention is expected to be warmly welcomed by City fans who idolised him during his playing days . |