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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him [prep] her [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The day I saw him at her funeral I said to myself he was a fine man .
2	" I thought the same thing the night I saw him with her wedding-dress .
3	‘ He is the man who murdered my father and sister when he attacked Tracy Castle , who made my other sister 's life such a hell that she killed herself rather than endure it any longer , and who then would have forced me to wed him in her place . ’
4	Wordlessly , she led him to her bedroom and turned towards him , reaching for the long zip on his leather suit .
5	‘ You implied to Belinda that there had n't been anyone in your life since Jennifer , ’ said Rachel as she led him into her kitchen .
6	As I follow her into the front room someone whispers to Rufus : ‘ She got him under her thumb , I think . ’
7	In the audience was Princess Margherita of Savoy ( later Queen of Italy ) , and she appointed him as her singing teacher .
8	He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife .
9	Succeeding to the throne on 20 June 1837 , she dismissed him from her household .
10	Could she alert him to her danger ?
11	She found him in her office eating sandwiches and downing the last of his coffee .
12	At the break on Friday she approached him with her drawing pad .
13	When she meets him after her seduction by the Older Man , they are tragically tense and withdrawn .
14	I 'll wait for you out in the corridor , ’ Bryce replied when she told him of her plan .
15	In turn , she told him of her life under Benedicta 's wing , making him laugh when she related her earlier antics and gave creditable impersonations of the good Sisters .
16	She told him of her unhappiness , but she knew that , because of his love of the house , it would be difficult to convince him to move .
17	She told him about her promise to Ross .
18	In her letter she told him about her job , her salary and the contract she had won yesterday .
19	Her father was a Presbyterian and when she confronted him with her decision , doing it as pugnaciously as usual in spite of her nerves , they had a furious and ridiculous quarrel : a man of fifty for some reason threatened by the vast religious longings of a fifteen-year-old .
20	The King , she announced , would have to prove his household was cleared of these doxies before she allowed him into her bed .
21	Just as Debbie was about to wind up the window , he suddenly asked her for a lift , saying he only lived 5 minutes down the road and could she drop him on her way ?
22	She surprised him by her intensity .
23	In fact she called him to her dressing room after the performance and all but ordered him to leave his normal persona behind .
24	Nothing but a beast , dumb and rude and mute and savage , she called him under her breath ; a man who could only talk men 's talk , who had none of the graces a nobleman would have , but of course Tommaso Talvi would never make a nobleman .
25	Her child had a nightmare and she took him into her bed to comfort him .
26	She took him to her home in a middle-class London suburb and her mother disapproved .
27	He had nowhere to go , so she took him to her room , such as it was .
28	She took him to her room where they could have privacy .
29	Raymond Lully featured among them , though in apocryphal form , as the subject of a singular conversion experience : inflamed by illicit passion for a married woman , he would brook no denial until she took him to her house and there , in the presence of her husband , bared to Raymond 's astonished eyes a breast almost entirely devoured by cancer .
30	She tells him about her father — about how he stood on the cliffs in a flapping raincoat when she was a child and sang the whole of ‘ O Thou that tellest Good Tidings to Zion ’ over the roar of the wind and surf , and about how later she could not speak to him without irritation in spite of her love for him .