Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] him [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she warned Ace what her father expected of him he 'd laugh in her face . |
| 2 | One man in particular er again I wo n't mention his name but anybody that went to Road School 'll know who I , I mean when I say that if you did anything wrong he 'd call you out and ask you something and if you , if you like pupils used to be a bit shy and , and not speak to him he 'd slap you across the face . |
| 3 | As he sat waiting for Karlinsky to appear , looking around him he could see other men 's sons , boys of Jacob 's age , sitting with their fathers . |
| 4 | If his mother did n't stand outside waiting for him he 'd spend the money on something important , like caps for his gun and comics . |
| 5 | After she had talked with him she would let everyone else know . |
| 6 | It had been a silly , spur-of-the-moment impulse to deny it , but by lying to him she 'd put herself in an invidious position . |
| 7 | They reckon if you concentrate with him you can do the same |
| 8 | ‘ From the little I 've grasped about him I 'd say that was unlikely , to say the least . ’ |
| 9 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 10 | Mm and just think Jane if you 'd of stayed with him you 'd have your hands full . |
| 11 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 12 | The clue is , of course , that if Archer 's coat was powder-stained his killer must have been someone known to him who could get up that close in the deserted night street where he met his end . |
| 13 | The end of that talk was that Farmer Olinton said he 'd be only too pleased for the Brownies to use his loft for Pack Meetings , and if Miss Truscott would call on him they 'd arrange the whole thing . |
| 14 | He might if I , if I talk to him he might tell me what sort of I do n't want to hassle him you see cos I 've hassled |
| 15 | In itself it could mean nothing ; in regard to him it could mean only that he was mad . |
| 16 | The government could issue each family with a cage for their own felon , and depending on how they felt about him they 'd treat him accordingly . |
| 17 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 18 | I was not in love with Terry , never had been ; I went after him , deliberately , because I was ripe for an affair and I thought with him I could have one and enjoy it and still feel like the nice clean girl-next-door afterwards . |
| 19 | Again , Atrakhasis was warned , the god instructing him in a dream to build a boat , take on board his family and animals , and explain his action to his fellow men as a punishment inflicted upon him which would bring benefit to them . |
| 20 | Her father sat beside her and glancing at him she could see that he was quite puffed out with pride . |
| 21 | ‘ Surely , if you 've worked for him you must know what I mean . ’ |
| 22 | I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know . |
| 23 | ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain . |
| 24 | So he knew that if he instructed Marshalls to act for him they would charge him their normal fees for their work . |
| 25 | ‘ If the knackers had bid for him I would have outbid him and kept him myself , I do n't care how much it would have cost , ’ she says . |
| 26 | Whenever I ran into him he would ask , ‘ Seen Hornbaker yet ? ’ |
| 27 | Yes , that 's right , I see , but I said to him we 'll try Alder 's and the Army & Navy But I |
| 28 | I said to him you 'll have to go and get me some money cos I I ai n't got hardly any . |
| 29 | Erm , and I said to him you will help me wo n't you , you wo n't go back to me doing everything , oh lord he said , I 'll , I 'll do my share , so we went back to a routine , whereby I did , washing , ironing , cooking , cleaning , washing the car , mowing the lawn , doing the flower beds , and the doing the , he walked the dog . |
| 30 | And I said to him you can have it for two , two fifty . |