Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 2 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 4 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
| 5 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
| 6 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
| 7 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 8 | I told him in great detail . |
| 9 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 10 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 11 | I cuddled him for four hours until he died in my hands . |
| 12 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 13 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 14 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 15 | I usually let him out of the pram but last week I lost him for five minutes in Tesco , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Then I treated him for three days with a view of my back and my sulky face . |
| 17 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 18 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |
| 19 | I saw him with that Jones girl , ’ answered his sister Dorothy . |
| 20 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 21 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 22 | I sprayed him with that stuff . |
| 23 | My sister and I put him to good use . |
| 24 | Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt . |
| 25 | First , I regressed him to former years and previous golfing tournaments when he had done exceedingly well , so that he was again able to savour the feeling of success and achievement . |
| 26 | I disabused him of that notion . |
| 27 | So I had him for five hours , normally from 6 pm to 11 pm . ’ |
| 28 | I married him without much hope that it would come out right . |
| 29 | I held him with one arm and the other lay between him and the small bump that was the baby . |
| 30 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |