Example sentences of "of [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , of course you ca n't sort of cuddle him like that cos he 's too heavy , I rock him you know for a , a couple of minutes , not that long , he 's taken his braces off as well still do , do n't ya ? |
| 2 | at the end of June so that 's when that was taken , you ought to of asked him when you saw him today |
| 3 | you ought to of asked him when he sold it to ai n't ya ? |
| 4 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 5 | Such a strange thought when a moment ago she had fantasised so cheerfully of touching him ! |
| 6 | For one moment she hesitated , wary of touching him , but conscious that it would appear decidedly petty to ignore his gesture . |
| 7 | But last night , his angry wife accused the Government of using him as a scapegoat . |
| 8 | He wants to talk about The Miser , so you persist with that line of questioning in the hope of drawing him on other aspects of his career . |
| 9 | He let me sort of tickle him and god knows what but er he 's pretty wary for some reason . |
| 10 | He was told that the government department , with general responsibility for arts policy , has no means of helping him to reclaim the bronzes from the Ariadne Galleries in New York . |
| 11 | He had to find out how far Green had gone , and soon made himself known to him on the pretext of helping him . |
| 12 | It is just that I am trying to find ways of helping him through the first bad spell of his career . |
| 13 | I was at the time very concerned , because he was posted almost immediately to North Africa , and there was no chance of helping him forward in the early days of his Christian life . |
| 14 | now when I do n't get them till Wednesday night or Thursday night , I 've got no chance of helping him really |
| 15 | I had the advantage of seeing him first , eagerly scanning the carriages , and I observed that he was bronzed almost to the colour of teak . |
| 16 | We have had heroes in our time at Crystal Palace but there was only one Albert Harry and those who had the pleasure and privilege of seeing him play were lucky indeed . |
| 17 | ‘ I have had the mortification of seeing him … this afternoon with three prizes … ’ wrote one irate resident to the Admiralty , ‘ and nothing in the world to oppose him . ’ |
| 18 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 19 | Emily tried to remember if she had ever known in the days of seeing him that he was such a strong swimmer , but nothing much came back . |
| 20 | And then on Monday morning things moved around in his head and he started drinking quite a lot , a ] so for Sam 's sake , to toast the victory of seeing him once more and to say a damn to caution . |
| 21 | What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation . |
| 22 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 23 | And why , right now , did the thought of seeing him literally cause her pulse to gallop ? |
| 24 | The explosion of joy that had suddenly burst through her at the thought of seeing him , at the thought of being with him , for a moment had overcome her senses . |
| 25 | Maria demanded rudely , not yet fully recovered from the oddly physical shock of seeing him so unexpectedly . |
| 26 | The shock of seeing him , here , now , paralysed her completely . |
| 27 | Hurriedly she retraced her steps , the breathless excitement of seeing him mounting again . |
| 28 | No one in the offices overlooking Spring Gardens with any recollection of seeing him … |
| 29 | ‘ I was probably dreaming of seeing him again somewhere far from here ! ’ |
| 30 | The thought of seeing him deranged her . |