Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
| 2 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 3 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 4 | I may say that despite my reputation of being trigger-happy where libel writs are concerned , I restrained him by all sorts of expedients . |
| 5 | Luckily there was a manger in the corner of his box with a tying-up ring next to it so I tied him to some baler twine , in case the worse came to the worse , and put his water and his hay at nose level in front of him . |
| 6 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |
| 7 | I saw him with that Jones girl , ’ answered his sister Dorothy . |
| 8 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 9 | I saw him from some way away , and was struck by his seductive silhouette . |
| 10 | I sprayed him with that stuff . |
| 11 | Roughly , those over thirty-five , and I put him in that group , reacted with a mixture of impatience , embarrassment , and guilt . |
| 12 | First , I regressed him to former years and previous golfing tournaments when he had done exceedingly well , so that he was again able to savour the feeling of success and achievement . |
| 13 | I disabused him of that notion . |
| 14 | I married him without much hope that it would come out right . |
| 15 | There is no lasting acrimony between Gedge and Rigby and when they meet up he often jokes that she provided him with enough material to launch and sustain a musical career . |
| 16 | She phoned him at all hours of the day and night , ranting sometimes , crying others . |
| 17 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 18 | Dressed soberly in a long-sleeved , ankle-length tunic which , though cut loosely , came high up to her neck , she approached him with both hands extended in greeting . |
| 19 | She needled him with such venom from behind her thick lenses that Seb was visibly squashed . |
| 20 | She informed him of this conclusion , and with his usual calm he accepted it . |
| 21 | It was strange how she loved him for that business with Tommaso so long ago , how she had such a feeling for the intricate conventions of the old code , and saw him as a man of honour , a duellist . |
| 22 | She watched him for several moments , then looked about the large dining-room , trying to fathom the reason for his actions . |
| 23 | Beth was convinced that Matthew would run away if she took him from this house , then what would become of him ? |
| 24 | I just hope that you issued him with that warning because I meant what I said — I 'll ruin him if he hurts her again . ’ |
| 25 | He spoke bitterly of the way she left him for another man , a student , when she was 16 then humiliated him by giving intimate details of their affair to the press . |
| 26 | ‘ We brought him on this tour so he could develop , and I believe he could be the player to hold England 's batting together for the next ten years . ’ |
| 27 | We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position . |
| 28 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 29 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 30 | before they transferred him to another prison . |