Example sentences of "him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Frank Dick , the coach close enough to him to be the one he ultimately asked to be with him for his operation , did not have an inkling until the competition in France that Thompson had not high-jumped in training all year . |
| 2 | I declined his offer of another brandy , made my excuses , and thanking him for his hospitality I left by the back door . |
| 3 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 4 | The Cambridge deputy orator of 1957 commended him for his ecumenical work , and as the tireless pastor of the northern province , and made no mention of his academic originality — perhaps the ghost of Bethune-Baker still peeped through a window of the Senate House . |
| 5 | In return his father rages at him for his inability to become a ‘ real ’ man , and demands as the only acceptable proof that Lucio has regained his masculinity that he attack the very next man he sees and sexually assault the first woman ( iv . |
| 6 | A year before his death , Charles had written to Lord Mountbatten , once again thanking him for his help . |
| 7 | He made his announcement as his commanders prepared to begin disciplinary proceedings against him for his denunciation of racism and brutality in the force . |
| 8 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 9 | Beaten into second place by his team-mate Rene Arnoux in the 1982 French Grand Prix , he pulled into a service station on his way home only for the attendant to mistake him for his rival . |
| 10 | The West German Government honoured him for his notable work in promoting friendship between the two countries . |
| 11 | A brave reporter thrust a microphone under his nose and asked him for his comments . |
| 12 | One was a personal letter from the President of United Motors , Nate Cocello , thanking him for his services to the Corporation . |
| 13 | The other was from the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations , thanking him for his personal contribution to the expansion of European Component Operations . |
| 14 | Really she 's after him for his money . ’ |
| 15 | Against her creamy paleness his hand was a thin brown intruder , and he knew there were times when she despised him for his swarthy colouring . |
| 16 | Whoever the man had been , with his blue eyes and thinning hair , Dorothea was grateful to him for his presence . |
| 17 | By then it was too late to enter him for his other preferred Cheltenham Festival target , the Mildmay of Flete Handicap Chase , so he had to take his chance in the big one . |
| 18 | At Thanksgiving 1985 , Bush sent North a postcard thanking him for his work ‘ with the hostage thing and in Central America ’ and exhorting him to get some turkey ; North read it out at his trial four years later as evidence of approval , but it was all delightfully vague . |
| 19 | He accused her of blaming him for his failure to return with Oreste when , if anyone was to blame other than her sister Ellen , it was she herself . |
| 20 | Alexia and Cameron III gently chided him for his whistling habit , and he developed an aversion to his own work . |
| 21 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 22 | In England , possibly as a result of the Continental view , rumours arose that the Great Fire occurred as a result of acts by ‘ papists ’ and the King ( who had married Catherine , the daughter of the King of Portugal in 1662 ) had to combat the ugly anti-Catholic mood of Londoners and Parliament , particularly when another rumour arose of a plot to overthrow him for his Roman Catholic brother , the Duke of York . |
| 23 | When I asked him for his reaction , he sat hunched behind a table in his little palace , his head hanging down , his half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose . |
| 24 | I thanked him for his cheering thought and walked over to interrupt Barry who was involved with a small group of well-heeled tourists at the far end of the bar . |
| 25 | One of them rounded on him , grabbed him by the arm , but only asked him for his name and address . ’ |
| 26 | I recall thanking him for his consideration , but quite probably I said nothing very definite for my employer went on : |
| 27 | The purpose of praying is not prayer , but to delight in God , and commune with him for his own sake . |
| 28 | That period of his life also freed him for his experiments in other kinds of theatre which , although he never reverted to them after taking on his Stuttgart responsibilities , enriched his subsequent work . |
| 29 | The Joker is a very intelligent horse and knows his ‘ covering bridle ’ which we use on him for his studwork , or his ordinary bridle when he is ridden , and behaves accordingly . |
| 30 | You condemn him for his self-interest . |