Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Lance Buckmaster , our esteemed Minister for External Security has asked me to attend him down at the ancestral home , Tavey Grange on Dartmoor . ’ |
2 | He wrote round to fifteen builders on 22nd March and , with what today would be regarded as incredible naïveté , asked them to meet him together at the Office of Works on 24th March . |
3 | I asked him in for a break . |
4 | I track him down to the University of Saskatchewan and just catch him at home before he leaves for work . |
5 | How I led him out of the garden and into a rough and stony place where naught but thistles and brambles grow ! |
6 | I met him infrequently on the subway journey to and from work . |
7 | So I push him backwards into the mountain of stinking rubbish , and he sinks down on it . |
8 | When the fellow returned I entertained him here in the manor house . |
9 | I got him out at an ice cream parlor after a while . |
10 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
11 | I found him here on the floor with his neck broken . |
12 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
13 | ‘ I found him sometimes in a sort of energized depression ’ , said Shaffer . |
14 | A parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ . |
15 | ‘ In one case a parent refused to be bound over , saying : ‘ When I send him out of the house in the morning to go to school , I do n't know what he 'll be doing all day ’ . |
16 | I want him here until the end of his career . ’ |
17 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
18 | I put him down as a schoolboy . |
19 | Like , I did n't know whether to believe him or not , but you 'd feel wick if he was n't spoofing , so I let him off with a caution . |
20 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
21 | The sooner I get him out of the hands of that teenage vixen , the happier I shall be ! ’ |
22 | He finished packing up his newsletters and I followed him upstairs into the bar . |
23 | When he had done I followed him out of the room and shut the door . |
24 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
25 | ‘ He kissed me on the cheek and I waved him off at the door and watched TV before going to bed . |
26 | I worked him quietly through the autumn , teaching him how to work in the correct outline , maintaining his balance and an even rein contact , progressing to transitions , turns , serpentines and learning about length bend , rhythm and total obedience . |
27 | ‘ May I have him home to the abbey ? |
28 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
29 | I did not know if he was going to attack me or not , but I hit him hard with the side of my sword . |
30 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |