Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that rotten yellow-gutted two-timing little toad " — I let him go on like that a while , to get it out of his system . |
| 2 | The court heard Bedworth , now a student at Edinburgh University studying artificial intelligence , spent hours sitting in his bedroom mastering a £200 Christmas present which helped him hack into hi-tech systems . |
| 3 | Pupils can sometimes be diffident in expressing their anxieties about their visual condition and may be greatly helped if they can talk to someone knowledgeable and experienced in such matters who is unlikely to be surprised by incidents which can be a worry to some youngsters , such as , for instance , a glass eye lost in the swimming pool or the effect of strong light on a photophobic ( averse to glare ) pupil which makes him sit with closed eyes . |
| 4 | She let him go in alone to break the news to Chris . |
| 5 | It had been a blow to learn that he had gone away to spend Christmas with ‘ friends in the country ’ , and she imagined him surrounded by fascinating girls all more attractive than herself . |
| 6 | Hovering long enough to make sure it was n't for her , she left him talking in clipped , terse monosyllables and slipped away quietly to her bedroom , trying to suppress her curiosity about the caller . |
| 7 | It appalled him to think of living as Tina did , with one lover after another , apparently not even selectively , or as Jed , long separated from his wife and child , consoled by the society of a bird . |
| 8 | He paused a moment , and when he found that the horse was no longer rebellious , and only impatient to gallop , he let him go at full speed . |