Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 2 | I told him put the bleeding crumpets in the bloody toaster again . |
| 3 | I heard him question the Indian and I reached into the cat for the map which he had left on his seat . |
| 4 | If we took de Guichet himself — I saw him pass the other day , twice as thick as when I knew him , and the beard changes a man , but I knew that thwarted , ambitious face of his — if we took de Guichet himself , would Isambard give us Harry for him ? |
| 5 | I saw him driving the other day , tell you that ? |
| 6 | It was n't easy , but I persuaded him to do the right thing . |
| 7 | She heard him close the front door gently behind him . |
| 8 | She heard him slam the front room door and went back into the bedroom . |
| 9 | She gritted her teeth as she watched him swing the flexible whip between her legs . |
| 10 | ‘ Turn around , ’ she suggested , her hand on his arm as she steered him to face the big window . |
| 11 | She saw him read the simple stylish lettering that proclaimed the occupant below . |
| 12 | She felt him flip the short skirt up at the back , and jerk her knickers down to her knees . |
| 13 | She felt him pinch the fleshy outer folds of her labia between his fingers , and clip a peg on to it . |
| 14 | Eventually we persuaded him to contact the previous owners . |
| 15 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 16 | He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread . |
| 17 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 18 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 19 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 20 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 21 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 22 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 23 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |