Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 God 's mighty instrument is the lives that are wholly given to Him for His purpose .
2 It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself .
3 An infant who damages another by carelessly running into him on his bicycle is liable just as a person of full age would be .
4 She now grinned at him as she pushed him , only to cry at him under her breath as he lifted the teapot , ‘ Leave it !
5 The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time .
6 They have no , they have no personal , erm , relationship with me er , I 'll give you the example of one of our , erm er , er er erm , er most recent directors who 's , who 's just joined the board , Mr Ruben , who 's the head of Colgate Palmo Palmolive , and I just described to him to you how we , erm how we , er er er er er selected him .
7 I ought not to talk about him to you .
8 Horrible thought , but suppose she was just living with him for his money ?
9 Kit Everard was not a vain man , and he knew that even in the encounters that had given Ariel some pleasure ( later , when he 'd learned to check his premature excitement with her ) , she had not cared for him with her heart .
10 To get the best out of the situation both sides must try to understand how the other man goes about his work , what his problems are and how you can best communicate with him to your own advantage .
11 Ruth had lost all sense of direction as soon as he had gripped her hand so fiercely ; she just teetered after him in her high-heeled sandals .
12 Yet that was the situation Rodet was accepting ; and Wolff had not sneered at him for it .
13 She was always careful not to think about him during their estrangements but now , with him so near in time , there was a permissible pleasure in doing so .
14 That is not to say that the Minister has not left questions unanswered , not least the one just put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) .
15 Have you ever talked to him about her ?
16 Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ?
17 Between exercises he tried to keep his mind occupied in a number of ways : reciting every poem he could ever remember , pretending to dictate his autobiography to an invisible stenographer so that he could go over everything that had ever happened to him in his twenty-one years .
18 Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary .
19 ‘ I wondered if you also acted for him in his private affairs ? ’
20 He also thought of him as his father .
21 They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain .
22 I 'll probably end up snogging with him at my party .
23 Yet he accepts , as we think he must , that if a section 2(2) notice had been served upon the applicant before he was charged it would have overridden the caution which was presumably administered to him upon his arrest .
24 He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun .
25 My father slept with an indelible pencil and paper by his bed because gags often came to him in his sleep and he 'd wake up laughing .
26 It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ .
27 But Changez looked so alone — and close up I could see bits of bristle sticking out of his badly shaved face — that even I could n't laugh at him in my usual way .
28 No wonder that Abraham can not bring himself to name Isaac , or even refer to him as his son .
29 It eventually reached the point when one of us would simply talk to him about anything and everything until he 'd break and say , ‘ OK , you want me to talk .
30 I wo n't talk to him about it either .
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