Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] him [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to talk to him about it several times , but he would walk out on me . |
| 2 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 3 | Staring at him , at the strength , the energy that always seemed to radiate from him despite his easy , relaxed air , she did n't believe a word of it . |
| 4 | No , I thought , I thought you meant you 'd spoken to him after my date . |
| 5 | She began to thrust at him with her body ; their mingled breaths merged , their open mouths met , tongues touching . |
| 6 | Randy Sherwood , who was known as the Cock of the South , had a handicap of two and was so glamorous with his long , long legs and curly hair that fell perfectly into shape , that girls clamoured to groom for him for nothing . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose you went running to him after my phone call . ’ |
| 8 | I was unresponsive and kept joking with him about it — but I made it clear I was n't interested . |
| 9 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 10 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 11 | She had explained to him about her mother ; he had met her mother ; he had seemed to size up the problem , had said the right things in his oblique way . |
| 12 | She had heard of him from his grandfather . |
| 13 | He had condemned her and the warmth she had sensed in him from their first meeting had all gone . |
| 14 | How she had looked at him on their wedding day — as if he were a god ! |
| 15 | So he had answered his own son , that time when Yuan had come to him with his dream — that awful nightmare he had had of the great mountain of bones filling the plain where the City had been . |
| 16 | Land he gave to St Augustine 's , Canterbury , in 689 , which had come to him from his parents , had been confirmed in his possession by King Athelred ( CS 73 : S 12 ) . |
| 17 | When Duval was arrested in London , high society queued to commiserate with him in his cell . |
| 18 | Owen had written to him in his own hand , a fine and scholarly hand . |
| 19 | Lack of peak fitness had told against him on his first run of the 1989–90 season when pitched in against Desert Orchid and other top chasers in the King George VI Rank Chase at Kempton Park on Boxing Day . |
| 20 | And she had talked to him about me . ’ |
| 21 | The disasters that befell his army paradoxically heightened his personal charisma : even the barons of Outremer continued to look on him as their one potential saviour . |
| 22 | We always had to chase after him for it and he 'd never give her more than a pound a week . |
| 23 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |
| 24 | Recently someone came to talk to me about things that had happened to him in his childhood . |
| 25 | One officer who had worked with him during his short stay in the force laughingly told colleagues that this ‘ college man ’ definitely had one arrest — because he would willingly recall details of his big moment for anyone who was prepared to listen . |
| 26 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 27 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 28 | But of course ; Dan Ashton had chased after him with it . |
| 29 | But even when he was surrounded he continued to lay about him with his sword , and then with an axe when his sword broke , until he went down from a blow to the head . |
| 30 | Yet such evidence as there is suggests that his love for his wife had been deepened by the way she had stood by him during his years in prison . |