Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 3 | Mantack then returned to Donna 's parents house , where they told him about the message . |
| 4 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 5 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 6 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 7 | I was so surprised that I followed him without a word . |
| 8 | Just that I saw him on a train to London a couple of weeks ago . |
| 9 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 10 | Whenever I have met him since , he has invariably reminded me that I taught him about the business ! |
| 11 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 12 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 13 | ‘ He claims that I employed him as an assistant in order to find him a real job . ’ |
| 14 | Although it was late and Mr Edgar was tired after his journey , Joseph insisted , so I took him to the master 's room . |
| 15 | Soon after I got him I noticed a lump under his tummy , so I took him for a thorough check-up . |
| 16 | ’ So I waltzed him across the road and put him in a doorway and left him for somebody else to find . |
| 17 | At this point I thought she might be distracted by the kid whose chair was sticking out , so I asked him for a second time to move back even further . |
| 18 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 20 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 21 | Ronni smiled a small smile , grateful that the subject of Jeff and Silvia had been left behind , and enjoying , for once , the fact that she had him at a disadvantage . |
| 22 | He loved her humour and the fact that she treated him as an equal , although their business was always conducted on the most formal lines . |
| 23 | Phyl would have stayed in show business without the help of Littler but she was fortunate in that she met him at the right time , when he was building up his pantomime empire . |
| 24 | What she was sure of , though , was that she wanted him with every fibre of her being . |
| 25 | ‘ I heard about Froggy , ’ he said , ‘ and that you found him with the shaft of a golf club stuck through his gullet , ’ he finished brightly . |
| 26 | He was being kind , she could tell , and not probing further , so she rewarded him with a rather watery smile , and said sententiously , ‘ There 's always a first time for everything . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’ |
| 28 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 29 | His claim that we described him as the IRA 's Chief of Staff is untrue . |
| 30 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |