Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But yesterday he showed just how much his party needs him now . |
| 2 | All night long his companions cursed him as he whined and complained . |
| 3 | The water running down his body reminded him that he had cried last night . |
| 4 | Perhaps his anxiety leads him to be excessively shy and almost apologise for his existence . |
| 5 | Perhaps his parents taught him that sounding gushy is bad . |
| 6 | He must have been more confused than any of us ; or perhaps his ignorance prevented him from grasping just how bad things were . |
| 7 | Probably his children loved him and perhaps his neighbours liked him too . |
| 8 | Obviously his leg hurt him , and he sat down quickly . |
| 9 | So his friends stripped him , marched him out , tied him to a lamp-post , painted his bottom half bright green and left him . |
| 10 | So his experience makes him ideally placed to plot Durham 's tactics : ‘ The Dutch tend to be steady , defensive and go for the breakout while the Poles rely on disciplined passing . |
| 11 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 12 | It appeared , or so his secretary told him , that a bloke had been given the job of presiding over England 's most famous girls ' school . |
| 13 | Only his card allowed him to be identified . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 15 | But it is not his temper makes him unlike any poet I have ever known so much as his , well , as his coarseness in general . |
| 16 | This particularly infuriated Dermot , the pack leader , and sometimes he would knock Patsy about so badly that finally his father told him off , not for hitting the little boy , but because Patsy 's subsequent sobs kept Patrick Milligan senior from his sleep . |
| 17 | The more battles and the more kills an Orc has under his belt the more respect he earns from other Orcs , the more his enemies fear him , and the happier he will be . |
| 18 | At once his equerry handed him two files . |
| 19 | A year later his father followed him to the grave . |
| 20 | Later his mother apprenticed him to a lithographic printer . |
| 21 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 22 | Probably his children loved him and perhaps his neighbours liked him too . |
| 23 | He waited until it was nearly too late , and then set his alarm for the old confident time of the morning and rang up his agent to tell him to say yes . |
| 24 | Harry had only to reach out his hand to restrain him , but movement seemed suddenly to have deserted him . |
| 25 | When he got back his sister told him . |
| 26 | Now his plea involves him in sharing their sentence with them . |
| 27 | How right this intuitive decision proved to be and how well his intuition served him in the years ahead . |
| 28 | ( as even his enemies called him ) , more formally , OM , was an iconoclast by temperament , a Pooh Bah by habit and a mandarin by instinct . |
| 29 | His looks , his temperament , his background — even his name marked him off for ridicule . |
| 30 | Even his children found him strangely distant and impersonal . |