Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the poison inside his sister hurt him more than her accusations ? |
| 2 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 3 | When he got back his sister told him . |
| 4 | Nothing was said about his next move , except that he could hardly expect his sister to take him in now , and that he was unwilling , under any circumstances , to move to Purley . |
| 5 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 6 | Charlie started quietly to sing with the tape , and his sister joined him , both stretching for the top notes . |
| 7 | His contemporaries remember him as ‘ Dear Randy ’ , the epitome of the slick student politician . |
| 8 | His contemporaries reported him as a master of geological field-mapping techniques and his original maps of many parts of Scotland confirm his observational skills and his ability to locate himself in the wilderness with an accuracy that can not be improved upon with aerial photographs . |
| 9 | His contemporaries described him as being ‘ oak-hard ’ , and in his photographs the bullet-head , the upswept moustaches and rather piglike eves remind one more of a typical Prussian Feldwebel , with all its connotations of brutal , unimaginative single-mindedness . |
| 10 | Several of his contemporaries describe him as tender and gentle , modest , ‘ shy ’ even . |
| 11 | His university refused him a not lofty post in the faculty of divinity . |
| 12 | His employers offered him additional wages and a partial refund of the extra travelling expenses . |
| 13 | As before , whenever his acquirements enabled him to pay , he would be called upon to do so . |
| 14 | He plunged on the bomber and raked it from tail to nose ; then let his dive carry him under it and pulled up in time to plant a burst in its belly before climbing into a half-roll which brought the next plane almost within range . |
| 15 | Eventually a Cun bowed and indicated for his brethren to follow him ; the others snarled at the Galks and walked away . |
| 16 | His enthusiasm carried him to her . |
| 17 | If he looked bored and cold and ready to quit in Swansea the other night , he 'll carry on running into places his own brain ca n't conceive until his genius leaves him . |
| 18 | He stood just within the room , looking steadily at the Princess , and went headlong where his genius pointed him . |
| 19 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 20 | Laura 's problem was that she had not enough to do — no children , though she had n't said anything about this recently — and his heart smote him because he had undertaken to make her happy , and had n't . |
| 21 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 22 | His considered assessment was that Ken 's narrative verse was ‘ often cumbrous ’ and his lyric verse ‘ not seldom languid and redundant ; yet all breathing an angelic spirit interspersed with such pure and bright touches of poetry that a reader will scarcely find it in his heart to criticize him ’ . |
| 23 | Nicholas sat perfectly still , his heart shaking him . |
| 24 | As Jesus agonised over his death — a death unique to the Son of God — he sweated drops of blood and he felt his heart failing him . |
| 25 | Many of his views categorize him as a wet — a European enthusiast ; against capital punishment ; and in favour of sensible abortion laws . |
| 26 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 27 | The cleverness of his fingers availed him |
| 28 | His small son , age five , was hanging from a steel bar eight or ten feet above the ground while William 's , a year older , taunted him from a greater height and threatened to tread on his fingers to make him drop . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His friends called him an easy-going chap ; his enemies called him weak . |