Example sentences of "that his [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite financial difficulties , however , Hahnemann displayed such intellectual ability that his teachers helped him in his studies and allowed him to finance his education by tutoring the younger children in the school . |
| 2 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 3 | Nor must this emphasis on the proprietary and financial aspects of a shareholder 's rights obscure the important fact that his shareholding causes him to become a member of an association , normally with rights to take part in its deliberation by attending and voting at its general meetings . |
| 4 | The worst of it was that his headaches made him so angry ; it was a symptom of the poison that was killing him by degrees . |
| 5 | In a letter to Prime Minister Wilfried Martens , the King , a devout Catholic , declared that his conscience barred him from signing the abortion bill into law . |
| 6 | We all called him ‘ Mol ’ abbreviating his name as students always do ; and throughout the diocese he is known by all his brother priests as simply ‘ Mol ’ ; and now I gather that his parishioners call him Fr Mol . |
| 7 | He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA . |
| 8 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained that his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 9 | During his childhood , Holovich had been taught Russian by his mother and it was ostensibly for that reason that his company asked him to visit Moscow — a quite spurious reason because we supply most adequate and experienced interpreters for commercial negotiations with foreign concerns . |
| 10 | Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest . |
| 11 | As the warrior Solor he possessed neither the exotic glamour of Ruzimatov nor the romantic height of Cope — and a dispassionate viewer would admit that his turban gave him an unfortunately gnome-like appearance . |
| 12 | Seton 's body was quickly reinterred and , despite Sir James ' protests , Corbett insisted that his escort accompany him back to the Abbey of Holy Rood . |
| 13 | George found that his position enabled him to divert a little of the firm 's money into his own pocket . |
| 14 | Ramsey was sent to two dames ' schools in succession but learnt so little that his parents took him away and for a year he was taught at home by his mother . |
| 15 | She could n't leave them any money because all she had was an annuity that would come to an end when she died , but Mister Johnny 's got a little bit that his parents left him and Hepzibah makes some from the poultry , so they should have just enough . |
| 16 | A good number of fabliaux advise the husband simply to accept his inferiority to his wife and to allow her to continue to keep the passage of the world smooth ; at the end of Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille , " The Knight with the scarlet robe " , a husband who has surprised his wife and made the compromising discovery of her lover 's horse and robe is hoodwinked by her , and the tale concludes : ( But he who keeps to the right path should believe fully , without dispute , everything that his wife tells him . ) |
| 17 | ‘ And as for the Bulldog , I hear that his wife takes him for walks at night to stop him making a mess . |
| 18 | In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker . |
| 19 | The only detail known of his marriage is that his wife survived him , and died at Mile End in London in 1793 , aged eighty-four . |
| 20 | Erm I asked and she said that his dad sent him off to get it X-rayed and she goes , But he 's had a history with his toe poor blighter . |
| 21 | It is also true that to wrestle with his thought demands a rethinking of the Gospel : that his students found him so witty and stimulating a teacher is understandable . |
| 22 | Her father could no longer understand her or her behaviour , and Catherine did not realize that his illness made him less patient with her . |
| 23 | That his clothes hugged him like a second skin , hiding nothing . |
| 24 | Plato 's claims , for instance , that his work enabled him to ‘ rise above ideology and the immediacy of mundane affairs ’ ( ibid. p. 9 ) have been accepted faithfully by classicists who wanted to believe what he said because of its significance for their position in and views of their own society . |
| 25 | Jason tells the press that his solicitor told him ‘ Mr Carman was a good man to get ’ . |
| 26 | By being supportive like this , it will reassure him that his family love him and are there to help him through this difficult time . |
| 27 | Not that his son condemns him for this , blaming instead the way Olivier Snr was brought up by a cold domineering father , a priest who put church before family , and his own dedication to fulfilling his professional promise . |
| 28 | What he says about the king 's own explanation for his forwardness in battle is one of a number of examples of d'Ayala 's perception of the Scottish kingdom : ‘ He ( the king ) said to me that his subjects serve him with their persons and goods , in just and unjust quarrels , exactly as he likes , and that therefore he does not think it right to begin any warlike undertaking without being himself the first in danger . ’ |
| 29 | His face had gone into something soft that his nose told him was dog dirt . |
| 30 | Which is interesting because he also tells me that his father expected him to follow him to Cambridge University . |