Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Great credit is due to Mr Peterken and the team he has gathered around him for their initiative and vision about finance . |
| 2 | I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me . |
| 3 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 4 | Speaking about children , Fr Cunningham 's face lit up and beaming smile crossed his face ; being with them is a passion which has remained with him since his days as a teacher , and later a headmaster . |
| 5 | Only once , and perhaps not surprisingly , when he talked about having to explain the implications of what has happened to him to his five-year-old daughter , Camera , did he almost break down . |
| 6 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 7 | No , I thought , I thought you meant you 'd spoken to him after my date . |
| 8 | I had had to talk about him to someone to ease my mind . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean she 's frightened of the doctor and she thinks you 're going to send for him behind her back ? ’ |
| 10 | But I I do n't know , he did n't say and I was n't going to argue with him on it . |
| 11 | I would like to think of him as something else . ’ |
| 12 | She began to thrust at him with her body ; their mingled breaths merged , their open mouths met , tongues touching . |
| 13 | You keep er , the way he se keeps talking about him like you used |
| 14 | ‘ No names , no pack drill , but I know somebody who works for her and she was saying that Diana will be jolly pleased to have a lump sum to spend instead of having to go to him for her money . |
| 15 | You may have come across him in your investigation into Graham Mills ’ murder . |
| 16 | I ca n't reproduce the way he talks — you 'll have to listen to him for yourself — but he just sort of zooms off . |
| 17 | For some reason he was terrified about what we might have said of him behind his back . |
| 18 | She 's a very conceited woman , Pete the adulterous told me she was a very conceited woman and er Neil says I I I 'd have to talk to him to him about this , she could n't discuss anything with him she would lay down the law , that was how it had to be and I said no I said Gerry and I , I had no hesitation , as I said , in putting the boot in and Brenda and Dave take the same the attitude to children that you let them first of all when they 're small , you have to tell them no like you do not |
| 19 | Natasha may have lied to him about what her letter contained — as Ursula did . |
| 20 | I mean if I had n't have known him , then there 's no way I could have talked to him about it . |
| 21 | Ever since I ran away from Thornfield , Mr Rochester had remained in my thoughts , and now , as I stood at my cottage door that first evening , looking at the quiet fields , I allowed myself to imagine again the life I could have had with him in his little white house in the south of France . |
| 22 | Randy Sherwood , who was known as the Cock of the South , had a handicap of two and was so glamorous with his long , long legs and curly hair that fell perfectly into shape , that girls clamoured to groom for him for nothing . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose you went running to him after my phone call . ’ |
| 24 | I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it — but I made it clear I was n't interested . |
| 25 | The criminal Grimes is already suspected of murdering his apprentices , and no one will go fishing with him in his boat . |
| 26 | I mean I know through the summer holidays that I 've really got to get to work with him on his maths , likewise I know I 've got a lot of work to do myself for |
| 27 | She had tried to talk to him about it . |
| 28 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 29 | Before I could get to talk with him about it , somebody else shot him . |
| 30 | Will you come look after him for us ? |