Example sentences of "of his [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gentle pressure in the small of his back told him that the thruster pack had fired . |
| 2 | The estate and the house might both be high-value assets , but the conditions of his inheritance forced him to keep both intact and he got little currency out of them beyond the woodland leases and the shooting rights . |
| 3 | Dr. Jekyll becomes obsessed with producing a drug that can separate ‘ the good and evil personalities of man ’ , but the results of his discovery send him mad . |
| 4 | ( When appointed , he explained the prestige of his position required him to deal only with the minister , not with lesser civil servants . ) |
| 5 | George is also quite generous with his possessions , giving Lennie a larger portion of their food , or giving him all of his ketchup to keep him happy . |
| 6 | Seventy five year old Reg Potter finally convinced the love of his life to marry him … fifty years after she first turned him down . |
| 7 | Hahnemann 's opposition to the ignorance and barbarism of the medicine of his day made him many enemies in the medical profession . |
| 8 | It is also clear that Castro 's overriding concern with the security , both military and economic , of his revolution obliged him to conduct domestic policy with one eye on Moscow . |
| 9 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 10 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 11 | The painful state of his feelings rendered him incapable of personally addressing them . |
| 12 | In this poem Coleridge is clearly better able to understand his own mind by putting it in such a context , and , as in ‘ This lime tree Bower my Prison ’ such intimate understanding of his surroundings enables him to produce incredibly vivid Wordsworthian description of scene . |
| 13 | Philip was working long hours for Charles ( now Lord ) Forte and was so tired one night that he slept through the air raid warning and the attempts of his landlady to rouse him . |
| 14 | Some of his feats make him sound like the Bionic Man . |
| 15 | We had to amputate part of his leg to free him . ’ |
| 16 | The cleverness of his fingers availed him |
| 17 | Two of his attackers followed him and caught him and were about to drag him back out into the street when Zeinab came down the stairs . |
| 18 | The scholarship , the skill , the work and the love which had gone into this section of his gardens struck him forcibly . |
| 19 | It took the whole of his crew to hold him ( in a table whilst I got a hacksaw and cut at least two inches off his fancy boots ; somehow he managed to get them restored . |
| 20 | Then the butcher goes to the church to take leave of the priest , and as a token of his gratitude sells him the sheepskin at a knock-down price of two sous . |
| 21 | The sound of his bracelet precedes him and he brings a rush of morning chill in . |
| 22 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 23 | It was to be the last occasion on which many of his friends saw him , for he and Tasker did not return from that 1982 Expedition . |
| 24 | As a last resort , Richard Baxter decided to try the Bishop of Worcester to seek his permission to return to Kidderminster , even though he knew the Bishop was no friend of the Gospel , and even though many of his friends entreated him not to go fearing his arrest . |
| 25 | All you need to know about Brian is that in the Sixties one of his friends send him a postcard of planet Earth with a message saying : ‘ Wish you were here . ’ |
| 26 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 27 | The tenacity of his loyalty brought him back again and again to the perfect womanliness of Cis and the unmatchable maleness of Ifor , but in his wider field of operation they were no more than a couple of reference points : the rest of the map had to be filled in — by Philip , by Meredith , by rugby heroes , by the poets , but most of all , and as he went along , by himself . |
| 28 | The writer , on the contrary , may look over what he has already written , pause between each word with no fear of his interlocutor interrupting him , take his time in choosing a particular word , even looking it up in the dictionary if necessary , check his progress with his notes , reorder what he has written , and even change his mind about what he wants to say . |
| 29 | Kossuth 's tragedy was that the very fervour of his nationalism made him so intolerant of other ethnic groups within Hungary , that he damaged the cause he sought to promote . |
| 30 | Brutus then , a few lines later , claims no knowledge of her death when two of his officers tell him of it ( IV , iii , 141–92 ) . |