Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had enough of the hon. Gentleman when I increased my majority against him in the past two elections . |
| 2 | He came out of the phone-box and I pushed my bicycle beside him through the crowds . |
| 3 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 4 | He saw her look from him to the key , judging the distance , assessing the possibility of getting out of the room alive , and smiled inwardly . |
| 5 | Since the 1950s they had lost a good deal of their influence over him to the Americans . |
| 6 | Colt had laughed at the Captain and the men around him , laughed until they took out their failure on him with the most savage beating he had ever received . |
| 7 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 8 | Her father would groan sleepily as she hurried her kiss to him through the smell of cigars on his night 's breath . |
| 9 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 10 | Boredom , thought Charlotte , as she made her way before him across the small panelled dining-room , is one thing I do n't anticipate . |
| 11 | He sat behind the big desk , and Jill the secretary sat at her table opposite him across the room . |
| 12 | Corbett regained his strength and scrambled to his feet , dragging the dwarf in his grasp with him as the latter 's accomplice slumped wordlessly to his knees . |
| 13 | This is , however , a rare instance of Anderson displaying any interest in McKendrick and the change in his attitude towards him at the end of the play is confirmed in the figures for his turn-allocation . |
| 14 | He took his typescript with him from the compartment for fear of its vanishing . |
| 15 | Sometimes she sat in his room with him in the evenings when he practised , curled up on one or other of the narrow beds , with her sewing . |
| 16 | So Rodrigo departed from the King , and took his spouse with him to the house of his mother , and gave her to his mother 's keeping . |
| 17 | A girl and her boyfriend had fallen out and he went round to her house the next evening to apologise , taking his dog with him for the walk . |
| 18 | Housman then kept his version by him for the rest of his life , not collecting it in A Shropshire Lad , nor in his Last Poems ( 1922 ) . |
| 19 | Officially he does not share Bacon 's acceptance of formal causes , and even his agreement with him about the relevance to human actions of the final causes of Aristotelian tradition is qualified by the thought that , in the end , they are reducible to efficient causes . |