Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 2 | Then I asked of him concerning the suffering . |
| 3 | So I clung to him through the poetry I went on helping him to write . |
| 4 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 5 | I stopped beside him as the other three went on ahead . |
| 6 | Seve finished second to Johnny Miller and after that I caddied for him until the end of 1979 . |
| 7 | I rushed with him into the buildings and found what I expected and dreaded ; a small calf kicking at its stomach , getting up and down , occasionally rolling on its straw bed . |
| 8 | One of them came to see me , and as I walked towards him across the table , he put on his glasses . |
| 9 | I walked towards him on the stony track |
| 10 | Eleven years later I worked with him as a local newspaper reporter when he was a club manager at Ayr United . |
| 11 | I worked with him in the theatre , through the good times and the bad times . |
| 12 | Mr Massey , who had joined the group in 1985 and ended up as group finance director , recalls the early stages : ‘ When Anthony Jacobs mentioned selling , I talked to him about the possibility of an MBO . |
| 13 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 14 | I talked to him after a recent gig in Manchester ( which saw Robben playing with Roscoe Beck on bass and drummer Tom Brechtlien ) and asked him about his new album . |
| 15 | When he emerged I saw behind him at the door a small , black-haired , middle-aged Japanese woman in a red kimono . |
| 16 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 17 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 18 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 19 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 20 | I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’ |
| 21 | Well , he fired a pistol and someone went for him with the blade of a scythe . ’ |
| 22 | I thought of him as a patrician in the Roman tradition , cultured , erudite , civilized , governed above all by his sense of duty . |
| 23 | Until I was seventeen , only occasionally and briefly meeting him , I thought of him as the rather alarming head of the family . |
| 24 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 25 | I went to him on the Sunday morning I said morning Charlie , he said morning and I said ni I said goodnight Charlie , he say goodnight and that 's the only thing he said to me all the weekend . |
| 26 | Marcus patted his lap and I went to him for a stroke . |
| 27 | I went to him for the political because I was a red hot loyalist at that time . |
| 28 | But you see , I just went to the education officer and I say , he , he ran it , he , it , it was , it was his responsibility the Guild 's were and I went to him about a Guild matter and I said oh , erm how I mentioned that I was working and he said well where are you working ? |
| 29 | With some trepidation I went with him with the trusty Seagull Outboard chugging manfully over the huge swell . |
| 30 | ‘ Anyway , he then insisted that I went with him to a trade show in San Francisco . |