Sentence examples for reproved him from inspiring English sources

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My dear Mal, I reproved him, you're enjoying this sexual awakening a bit too much.

He had said something to the boy, reproved him in some way, and the boy swore at him, and before he could stop himself he struck the little bastard open-handed across the jaw.

3 At all events, whereas at first Nero was comparatively moderate in the dinners he gave, in the revels he conducted, and in his drinking and his amours, yet later, as no one reproved him for this conduct and the public business was handled none the worse for it, he came to believe that such conduct was really not bad and that he could carry it even farther.

And the scars were ripped wide open in 1995, when a repentant former naval officer, Adolfo Scilingo, spoke publicly of the way dissidents were dumped, drugged but alive, from naval aircraft into the sea.In this section Losing, badly The dead of the dirty wars come back to life Welcome to Havana, Your Holiness ReprintsPresident Menem at first reproved him, but swiftly changed his tune.

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I had stopped reproving him.

This is why Jesus reproves him.

But Mr Cardoso had to reprove him publicly for refusing to talk.

She played a literary abbess who makes the acquaintance of Bernard Shaw, but reproves him when he airs his views on organized religion.

nor shall he hate him [in the uncircumcision] of his heart though he shall reprove him on the very day so as not to incur guilt because of him.

Writer speaks to an English friend about the matches he has seen, who reproves him, "Why would you expect it to be entertaining?"... Tells about watching a match between Paraguay and France, and comparing it to an NBA game on tape the next day.

When he called a young partner at his bank into his office to reprove him for being caught in an adulterous affair, the lad is said to have protested: "But, sir, you and the other partners do the same thing yourselves behind closed doors".

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