Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open .
2 And I worked for him for five pound a day because we needed the money .
3 I stared at him in great surprise .
4 I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless .
5 I apologized to him for this but he said , " I 'm glad to be out of it .
6 I am sure that the hon. Member for South Shields will be pleased to hear that I agree with him on that .
7 In Chapter 13 I will try to explain why I agree with him on this point .
8 I spoke to him about this and he confided that it was a mixture of polyurethane and Danish oil .
9 I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other .
10 That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’
11 ( I think of him in some tropical Valhalla , rejoined with Arsenio .
12 who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . "
13 The self-inflicted loss of Dominic Clarke following an off the ball incident in the second minute had left Armagh dicing with death and the killer blows subsequently rained in mainly from the accurate boot of Raymond Gallagher — remember what I said about him at Minor level last week ? — and the deadly finishing of Mark Gallagher and Malachy O'Rourke .
14 Back home , I wrote to him on 4 July , enclosing a shortish essay which the comparative leisure afforded by leaving Oxford had made possible .
15 ( 6 ) is very similar : given the opinion that Sir Jee had of himself , he could not understand what could lead someone to speak to him in such a way .
16 ( 3 ) The Director may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him on reasonable grounds to involve serious or complex fraud . …
17 His fiancee , Julie Craig , 26 , who lived with him at 34 Churchill Drive , Ardrossan , said that her boyfriend had gone wild in hospital when she visited him .
18 She lived with him for 11 years .
19 Also sitting at Robin 's table was the brilliant surgeon Mr Alan Crockard who operated on him in 1988 to save his life .
20 As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back .
21 She gazed at him in blank astonishment .
22 She gazed at him in horrified disbelief as realisation hit home .
23 Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’
24 It teaches you remain in him In other words remain in his word and let it remain in you .
25 She says she thinks of him as one of her own children .
26 What did she know of him after all ?
27 They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out .
28 She gaped at him in blank astonishment , then frowned .
29 ‘ Did you speak to him at all , Delia ? ’
30 His offence against those who came to him for medical help was less easy to punish .
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