Example sentences of "he [verb] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen believed unshakeably in his genius and was determined to enable him to realize his potential as a writer — a poet , like Shelley , she believed at this rime — without sacrificing her own strong desire for freedom of independent action , untrammelled by the stuffy conventions of the elders she suspected of hypocrisy . |
| 2 | When the plaintiff heard of this , he dismissed the defendant , and sought an injunction to prevent him breaching his duty of fidelity . |
| 3 | ‘ Again I felt uneasy , but I allowed him to continue his tour of the premises . |
| 4 | He entreated Haydn to overlook those faults which may have escaped ‘ a father 's biased eye ’ , and begged him to continue his friendship towards ‘ one who values it so highly ’ . |
| 5 | No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad . |
| 6 | Yeah well I do n't know about yet I think it 's too Steve might be taking him to see his nan on Saturday cos he knows Bill 's going Saturday . |
| 7 | She went with him to see his family in Ireland , and travelled to the far west of that country . |
| 8 | He wanted him to see his Father in a shooting war . |
| 9 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
| 10 | Watching through the window , Lucy saw him make his way towards the wool shed , his strides long , as though he wished to get there in a hurry . |
| 11 | If we come in , you ought to be kind to him and not ask him to sacrifice his health by taking office . " |
| 12 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 13 | The printing press enabled Luther to start a Reformation — think how long it would have taken him to preach his way round Germany . |
| 14 | But as I watched him pick his way along the lifeless paths , I understood how much of him expected the whole world to be mournful now that Montaine had abandoned it . |
| 15 | The vast rooms of that great Tudor mansion allowed him to indulge his taste for really large canvases , and the full-length portraits by Gainsborough and Batoni , the enormous hunting scenes and game larders by Snyders , and a life-size nude by Palma Vecchio all looked wonderful in their new setting . |
| 16 | The success of Budge , 52 , allowed him to indulge his passion for horses and collecting military hardware , including a Scud missile . |
| 17 | It will be difficult for him to enforce his writ in the far-flung reaches of the country . |
| 18 | He was developing an acute social and political conscience , and I could see him devoting his life to the Labour Party . |
| 19 | First , it must have enabled him to consolidate his hold on Anglian territories north of the Humber , establishing himself securely now not only in Deira but also presumably over the more outlying regions of his kingdom . |
| 20 | She had only to sit back with perfect composure — something at which she was adept — and wait for him to find his way through the necessary preliminaries to the real business of this meeting . |
| 21 | One friend has described him checking his wristwatch with an almost deliberate thoroughness : " He slowly and methodically raised his left hand and with his right hand carefully pushed back his coat sleeve and shirt sleeve at the same time and then painstakingly , at close range , studied the face of the dial . |
| 22 | Wait for the opponent to move , or force him to pull his weight off the front foot before sweeping or hooking it . |
| 23 | Although Charles II had fathered eight illegitimate sons by his five mistresses , of which Nell Gwynne was his favourite ( the New King 's Road was built to give the King access to Nell Gwynne ) , Catherine had no children and although Parliament endeavoured to persuade him to exclude his brother from succession to the throne , Charles II refused . |
| 24 | This information will enable him to concentrate his search on certain parish registers . |
| 25 | ‘ Let him hould his hoult till the day is over , anyway , ’ Joe said . |
| 26 | Afraid to tell Leopold the truth , Wolfgang wrote to a family friend , the Abbé Bullinger , asking him to inform his father of his wife 's death . |
| 27 | He had come from a bulk tanker that had tied up in the oil terminal in Kuwait harbour , thanked the Master who had allowed him to work his passage from the port of Perth , and gone ashore . |
| 28 | The blonde hostess leaned across him to re-charge his glass for the umpteenth time . |
| 29 | Bernice could see him tapping his umbrella on the floor , pretending to study the walls , and glancing back impatiently as if he could n't believe that his companions were still unable to follow him . |
| 30 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |