Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar reason was given for refusing the remedy to a convicted prisoner who brought an action against the Home Secretary and the prison governor requiring them to provide him with the necessary medical treatment in accordance with the Prison Rules . |
| 2 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 3 | I asked him about the meatless days which the man at Amsterdam had mentioned . |
| 4 | ‘ I speak with Michael Odell inside ten minutes , or I raise him on the open line , ’ said Quinn carefully . |
| 5 | I met him at the Labour Club . |
| 6 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 7 | If you are looking for Monsieur Alain , I passed him on the main road . |
| 8 | Like Richter and Tatyana Nikolaieva , I seen him as the founding father of all true musical quality , a composer far removed from conventional notions of sobriety , academicism or dryness . |
| 9 | Er I told him about the other one . |
| 10 | I told him about the cold-water tap , how it did not always produce more than a trickle , how frequently the pressure let us down . |
| 11 | I compared him to the other gentlemen present . |
| 12 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 13 | However , I refer him to the recent report on our manufacturing performance produced by the CBI entitled ’ Competing with the World 's Best ’ . |
| 14 | I refer him to the independent Centre for Economic Policy Research , where Professor Denis Snower recently published a document saying : ’ Implementing the social charter may be expected to hurt precisely those workers it seeks to help , in addition to raising unemployment and reducing investment ’ . |
| 15 | I remember him outside the front door , getting out of the taxi . |
| 16 | I tell him about the old garage under the arches . |
| 17 | I followed him to the cold lands of the north , and bought dogs and a sledge . |
| 18 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 19 | I followed him out the back door . |
| 20 | Leslie did not want me to go with him to the station , and so I watched him from the hotel-room window , his jaunty walk bravely exaggerated . |
| 21 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 22 | I saw him at the odd university reunion . |
| 23 | I saw him at the very moment in his life when he earned the name Elethandian gave him : the boy who listens to the voice of the oak . |
| 24 | ‘ I saw him outside the American University Hospital yesterday morning , ’ Laidlaw cut in quickly . |
| 25 | I heaved him at the other two and they went down , firing wild into the air . |
| 26 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 27 | I remind him of the disproportionate harm that the MacSharry proposals would cause and seek his assurance that he will bear in mind the Scottish farmers and all those elsewhere in Britain when he represents the interests of the British Government and the British farmer in Europe . |
| 28 | In Montana , he visited a number of old age homes for someone to supply him with the right voice , but to no avail . |
| 29 | I liked him in the Pink Panther . |
| 30 | I greeted him with the age-old aphorism : ‘ Those who can , do ; those who ca n't , teach ; and those who ca n't teach become administrators — in your case I know whether that is true ’ . |