Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him say " in BNC.
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| 1 | But since ( Rabbit believes ) Pooh will in fact believe that Rabbit believes what he says , this need n't make Rabbit say ‘ I believe there 's honey ’ : it need only make him say ‘ There 's honey ’ . |
| 2 | But it had n't been strong enough to make him say : |
| 3 | After all , he 's been working here for centuries , and I bet no one 's ever heard him say ‘ Cut , that 's a wrap ’ , before . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Well , maybe a bit too enthusiastic , ’ said Glastonbury : it was the harshest thing Amiss had ever heard him say . |
| 5 | He believed , and she had once heard him say , that eventually she would , naturally , come round to his way of thinking , and she had vowed to work harder at the study of English literature in order to learn enough words to refute him once and for all . |
| 6 | The third Marquis of Salisbury was a devout Christian , but his daughter Gwendolen once heard him say , ‘ God is all-powerful , and God is all-loving- and the world is what it is ! |
| 7 | As she came up she distinctly heard him say , ‘ Now , what else do we need ? ’ |
| 8 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 9 | She was surprised then to hear him say : |
| 10 | I 've never heard him say anything like that before . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never heard him say ‘ indeed , indeed , ’ I must admit . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Just before Micky died , he said something I 've never heard him say before . ’ |
| 13 | I 've never heard him say that before . |
| 14 | ‘ Never let him say we starve our visitors , expected or unexpected . |
| 15 | You never heard him say a bad word or anything like that . |
| 16 | ‘ I never heard him say an unkind thing about anybody and I never heard anybody say an unkind thing about him . ’ |
| 17 | To be fair , she could n't recall actually hearing him say the boat was his , but he certainly had n't corrected her when she had assumed him to be the owner . |