Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] him [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing I remember about him as an engineer was that we used to get these forms that told you each week who you were going to be working on , what the line-up was , and I saw this thing and it said David Bowie , Studio Two . |
| 2 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 3 | I think of him as an artist who writes history , and I take it that the history he writes includes the history he has principally suffered — that of Poland . |
| 4 | I waited for him for an hour , outside his half-built apartment building . |
| 5 | She turned to him with an affectionate grin , knowing his soft heart had been hugely moved by the children that afternoon . |
| 6 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 7 | She looked at him with an air of apology . |
| 8 | They rallied behind him despite an interview at the weekend in which he suggested he had considered the possibility of a contest for the leadership after this year . |
| 9 | At first he was surprised at this and only when they referred to him as an ‘ adult ’ did he realize that some time in the previous weeks the last of his juvenile plumage had moulted and his wings now had the rich and glossy glow of an adult golden eagle . |
| 10 | They walked with him to an old wooden building near the farmhouse . |
| 11 | It felt to him like an hour before Nutty stopped Midnight again . |
| 12 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |