Example sentences of "[vb infin] him of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 2 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 3 | This was in order to ‘ convince him of his misery and the necessity of true repentance and reformation ’ . |
| 4 | I think it fortunate that I met him as I am persuaded I can cure him of his disorder or turn the evil to good ’ . |
| 5 | It should also inform him of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 6 | It had none of the clinical efficiency of his mother 's , but it did remind him of his grandmother 's kitchen out on the farm , with its prosaic line of battered saucepans which shared a shelf with a large bowl for making bread and a hopeful looking collection of cake tins . |
| 7 | he had , he had a definite attitude problem so they said they would relieve him of his contract oh that 's fair enough , they 're paying you good money and they expect you to work hard and that 's it but we finish at one o'clock next term |