Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shelley had n't seen Miguel or heard from him since their meeting at Casa Madrid . |
| 2 | The section then continues — ‘ But it shall comprise the following particulars : — ( a ) All such property as may belong to or be vested in the bankrupt at the commencement of the bankruptcy , or may be acquired by or devolve on him before his discharge ; … |
| 3 | If there was anything here that came to him from his father , it could be nowhere but in the church , and he had never yet been allowed past the gate-towers , and could not believe in any such concession now . |
| 4 | If the modern manic individual is uninhibited in the state of mania because , as Rado suggests , he has regressed to a state of psychic organization that existed in him at his mother 's breast and definitely before his superego formed , then we can see that the reason why the divine kings of early agricultural societies could be described as ‘ manic ’ lie in exactly similar conditions : a situation in which the ego is not constrained by the superego because their collective equivalents — primal father and mother on the one side , and the son on the the other — have become one in the person of the monarch ( who , in this respect , is decidedly and accurately described as an incarnation of the trinity ) . |
| 5 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 6 | ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan . |
| 7 | Surely he deserves better of me than to gaze at him with my policeman 's eyes . |
| 8 | I go and sit beside him on his boxes and feel much the same as he does . |
| 9 | He said they must meet later , she must come and eat with him in his room and he would get a bottle of wine . |
| 10 | She stood to slip the dress down over her hips , and pouted at him in her petticoat . |
| 11 | I lay down on him and beat at him with my fists . |
| 12 | Athelstan , still feeling depressed after his visit to Hob 's wife , ignored the coroner and pushed by him into his small , two-roomed house . |
| 13 | The two eldest of the ‘ broth ’ agreed with their father , nodding and grinning at him with their mouths full . |
| 14 | When will you go and speak to him about it ? ’ |
| 15 | At this point the Bosnian refugee leaped on to the stage on a small wooden horse , designed and built for him by his mother . |
| 16 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 17 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 18 | They were acquired by Mr. B. Hopkin-Morris and preserved by him until his death in 1933 , when they were named after him , as a memorial . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'll take it to the hospital this morning , ’ she said , adding rather pathetically , ‘ and talk to him about it . ’ |
| 20 | The wording of the administration no longer referred to the body and blood of Christ but emphasized instead the commemorative significance of the sacrament , the minister declaring : ‘ Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee , and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving . ’ |
| 21 | One day he would find Corbett exposed and vulnerable and deal with him in his own sophisticated way . |
| 22 | For the power of Christ 's resurrection , as he puts it elsewhere , is available only to those who are willing ‘ to share his sufferings and become like him in his death ’ ( Phil 3:10 ) . |
| 23 | She pursed her lips and stared at him with her grey eyes . |
| 24 | Rachel got up from the sun-lounger , her feet burning on the hot stone floor of the terrace , and stared at him through her dark glasses as he strode into the living-room . |
| 25 | As he scrambled awkwardly to his feet , he switched the knife to his right hand and clawed behind him with his left for the pistol 's butt . |
| 26 | If he 's still here , would you go and talk to him for me , just casually , find out where he comes from . ’ |
| 27 | Could you sit down and talk to him about your favourite band ? |
| 28 | Linnaeus respected Miller 's work and corresponded with him after his return to Europe ; there are ten letters from Chelsea in the Linnaean collection covering the period from 1752 to 1768 . |
| 29 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 30 | Slowly , as though pulled towards him against her will , Isabel obeyed . |