Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 2 | So this afternoon I had him on the settee |
| 3 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 4 | They then wrapped it in linen and concealed it about their person : to jade a horse they touched him in the pit of the shoulder with the frog 's bone : to release the horse they touched him on the rump . |
| 5 | They bound the restaurant owner , who moaned feebly and thrashed about a bit ; then with Lambert 's aid they hoisted him to the high seat . |
| 6 | In the spring he took him to the house in Normandy . |
| 7 | Outside in the corridor I grabbed him by the elbow . |
| 8 | Out in the dark cold hall she stopped him at the foot of the stairs . |
| 9 | Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor . |
| 10 | But for Ilsa 's sake I asked him about the gleaming star and discs on their rainbowed ribbons and he became almost talkative . |
| 11 | I , when , when we go down to playschool I walk but because it takes what fifteen minutes to walk into town I put him in the pushchair |
| 12 | For a moment she held him like a baby in her arms . |
| 13 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 14 | Next day I shot him in the arm during our fight , thought that was the end of the whole thing , and left France . |
| 15 | In the dawn grey with sea mist she drove him to the airport . |
| 16 | Every day she meets him at the well , and every day he repeats the same request , till at last she yields . |
| 17 | Then one day she rang him with the triumphant news that she had finished . |
| 18 | On one occasion she threw him on the floor and on another she had deliberately broken his toys . |
| 19 | ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ . |
| 20 | When he gave them his name they arrested him on a charge of rape . |
| 21 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 22 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 23 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 24 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 25 | Though he was later subtly dismissive of the assembly , he undoubtedly appreciated its value at the time , not least for the good publicity it gave him in the British and American press . |
| 26 | Oh yes , every month I call him into the office and I say , it still is n't good enough , pull your socks up . |
| 27 | Every morning I drove him to the hospital , waited for his X-ray treatment , drove him home again and helped him to bed . |
| 28 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 29 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 30 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |